Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein opens with Henry Frankenstein, a young scientist living in a European village. Together with his assistant, the hunchback Fritz, Henry is seen putting together various parts to a human body. Using the electrical machinery attached to the body he is experimenting on, Henry aims to bring the corpse to life.

Meanwhile, Henry’s fiancé, Elizabeth, becomes increasingly worried as he continues his experiments inside the abandoned watch tower. When she consults with Henry’s former medical professor, Dr. Waldman, he tells her that Henry is working on something that can create life. Elizabeth decides to confront Henry and when she and her friends go to the tower, they find Henry making final preparations for his trials. When Henry and Fritz set the machineries in motion, they are very surprised to see Henry Frankenstein’s body start moving.

Frankenstein brings the creature inside his laboratory. Fritz also comes inside but his the torch he holds frightens the creature. His actions are misinterpreted as attacks so Frankenstein and Waldman decided to chain him up in the dungeon. As the two scientists are discussing what they should do with the creature, they hear screams coming from the dungeon. They proceed to the dungeon and find the dead body of Fritz. Upon seeing them, the creature also tries to attack them but they manage to escape. The two scientists then decide that they must kill the creature. Henry prepares a lethal injection and with the help of Waldman, he manages to inject the creature and render him unconscious.

Henry leaves the creature in the hands of Waldman but it wakes up while he is away and kills him. The creature escapes from the tower and meets a little girl who asks him to play with her by the lake. The girl and the monster toss flowers on the lake and watch them float. When they run out of flowers, the creature, assuming that she will also float, throws the girl onto the lake. The monster runs away when it sees how the little girl drowns.

Meanwhile, while waiting for Waldman, Elizabeth’s friend, Victor comes in and informs Henry that Waldman’s dead body is found in the tower. At that moment, they also hear screams coming from the house. They rush inside and find the unconscious Elizabeth on the bed.

The little girl’s father also arrive with her daughter’s body claiming that she is murdered by the monster. The people start hunting for the monster. Frankenstein becomes separated from his group and is attacked by the monster. He wakes up in an old mill where he cries for help. They come to the rescue and find the scientist being dragged by the monster on the top of the windmill. The monster hurls Henry and he barely survives when he lands on the vanes of the windmill. The villagers retrieve him and burns the mill with the monster inside.

The movie ends with the celebration of Henry Frankenstein’s wedding and his father toasting to his future grandchild.