Frankenstein

Considered lost for decades, this pioneering adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a key work in the history of the horror genre. Though bare-bones by any standard, James Searle Dawley's version of the classic tale was an unusually ambitious project for the fledgling Edison Film Company, and caused considerable controvery when it was first released. The film opens as Victor Frankenstein (Augustus Phillips) leaves home for college, then flashes forward to two years later, when his reseach into creating life is about to bear fruit. He hopes to create a perfect being, but the result of his experiment is a misshapen monster (Charles Ogle), and he flees his ...