Sometime back when Kenneth Branagh was still making Shakespeare movies (and long before he dabbled in Christie), he tried his hand at literary horror with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994). In a similar vein as Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), this movie promised to stick to the book more than the 1930s or 1960s monster flicks. In fact, Francis Ford Coppola had originally planned to direct this movie as he had Dracula, then stepped back to a producer role for this one. But reviews and the box office were not kind to this Frankenstein, even if its story is more accurate to Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel than most earlier onscreen versions.
Still, I think this makes for great Halloween viewing with enough historical costumes by James Acheson and a lot of scenery-chewing by Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, and Robert De Niro. After looking through these details, you can judge whether the film is a trick or a treat.
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Hey, my great grandparents were a foster who fell in love with the son of the family. Do while it is a trope, it did happen! That was late 1800s.