In the 19th century, an old priest is riding his horse to visit the prisoner, Victor Frankenstein. Victor then tells him the story of how he got locked up. It all began when he was only 15 years old.

The scene switches to the past. Victor’s mother had just died, and her funeral has just ended. He also now owns the Frankenstein estate.

Shortly after, he gets this man, Paul Krempe, to tutor him. The two get to know each other over the years.

Sometime later, the men decide to perform miraculous scientific experiments. The first one is successfully bringing a dead puppy back to life. It functions just like it did before it died.

Victor decides to go even further and revive a dead human. But his ideas disgust Paul, who is now refusing to help him.

One thing that surprises Victor is that his cousin, and now fiancée, Elizabeth, comes to stay. He did not expect her, though, and has trouble accommodating her in his home.

After gathering different body parts for his next creation, Victor realizes that he’ll need a good brain. Then there is the super-smart man, Professor Bernstein, who eventually visits Victor.

However, something in the house collapses, and Professor Bernstein falls, thus meeting his demise. After his funeral, Victor obtains his brain and uses it for his creation.

But Paul tries to stop him, especially because the brain is now damaged. He also attempts to warn Elizabeth about Victor. Yet he doesn’t want to reveal all the details. Elizabeth won’t leave, though.

Once everything for reviving the corpse is completed, it does not turn out the way Victor intended. Thanks to using a damaged brain, the creation is violent and careless and lacks all intelligence, including speech.

Horrified by it, Victor locks it up – only for it to escape. It even bothers a blind old man and his grandson while they are at the park.

Paul shoots the creation and kills it. But Victor resurrects it later.

Victor also has an affair with his maid, Justine, which ends up impregating her. She warns him to either marry her or get reported to authorities. But he murders her.

Stakes are rising once again.

Despite the promising concept, this movie did not engage me as much as I hoped. It lagged, was hard to follow at times, and the exciting stuff happened too late in the story. And this film is not even an hour and a half long.

It was also Hollywood’s first official horror film. And I do accept their attempt – particularly because of the standards for media at that time.

I also admire how the movie wasn’t that scary. It might have been during the late 1950’s, though.

Although Victor was crazy and got punished for killing his maid, he did have good sides at times. For instance, he was usually kind to Elizabeth.

But to be honest, except for Victor, Paul, and the monster, the other characters were barely distinguishable. And that includes both their physical and personality traits.

Overall, I thought The Curse of Frankenstein was just okay. Even though the premise sounded exciting, the film just didn’t entertain me enough.

I give it 3 out of 5 stars.