Frankenstein (1910)
4/10
Of interest only to cinema fanatics or historians
23 August 2017
Being a film so old that it is a mark and part of the cinema history, I know I should be more benevolent in my evaluation, but this film only served the greedy interests of Thomas Edison and 15 minutes are not enough to report the Frankenstein story. Having such a tycoon and his own film studio behind it, I expected something much better produced, reported and detailed. I know it was the beginning of cinema and somehow it had to start somewhere so this adaptation would be made sooner or later, but I did not find anything scary or environmental, unlike the 1931 version, but that's another story. Even the performances are too theatrical and comical, and the monster looks more like a vagabond from the woods than some scary creature. The scene of the creation of the monster in the cauldron, yes, was innovative for the time but nothing more. Of interest only to cinema fanatics or historians.
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