The Bride of Frankenstein

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The Bride of Frankenstein

A horror film is a film dominated by elements of horror. This film

genre underestimates a number of sub-genres and repeated themes, such

as slashed themes, vampire. Horror films are designed to frighten and

panic that cause dread and alarm within our hearts, and to invoke our

hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying and shocking endings at the

same time entertaining us with excitement and therapeutic experience.

Most horror films are designed to show the dark side of life, the

forbidden and strange events that take place within the society and

our lives. Moreover they deal with our most primal nature and its

fears: our nightmares. Some horror films exhibit a substantial amount

of cross-over with other genres, particularly science fiction when the

monster or creature is related to a corruption of technology, or when

Earth is threatened by aliens.

Horror films are familiar with their own styles and their own special

effects, such as the gothic style which set in spooky old mansions,

castles, or fogy and dark shadowy areas. We can relate horror movies

to German expressionists which were the silent films in black and

white. The German expressionists film were highly stylized type of

film with different styles of oblique camera angels, distorted bodies

and shape that matched the incongruous settings that gave the gothic

effects.

The film The Bride of Frankenstein which was directed by the

Englishhorror masters James Whale in 1935, the film was one of the

best and most successful sequels ever made within the horror genre.

James who also directed the first film Frankenstein (1931) was also a

big success...

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be funny, when he utters his running gag line, "It is my only

weakness.".

In conclusion the film itself can easily be identified as a classic

horror film. This is because of the use of oblique camera angels and

the use of dark lightening and shadows within the film. The film also

contains violence and science fiction which most horror movies relate

to as the monster or creature is the cause this force or experiment.

The ending of the film is very interesting it is not a typical

Hollywood ending as the bride refuses to get with the monster. This

leads him to commit suicide and kills himself and the bride with his

and her creator. However there are other elements of other genres as

Henry and Elizabeth finally are reunited together; this showed the

other side of the film as it contained romance.

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