Screenplay: Mary Shelley

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Peter Boyle · Marty Feldman · Cloris Leachman

Plot An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates...

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles

Plot Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.

Direction Danny Boyle

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Jonny Lee Miller · Ella Smith · John Killoran

Plot Mary Shelley's classic tale, adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, will be broadcast live in HD from the National Theatre to cinemas around the...

Direction Juraj Jakubisko

Cast Viveca Lindfors · Martin Hreben · Gerhard Karzel · Barbara De Rossi

Plot Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a 7-episode TV miniseries based on the first one. The story is an intelligent humorous...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Hazel Court · Robert Urquhart · Christopher Lee

Plot Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Francis Matthews · Michael Gwynne · Eunice Gayson

Plot With the help of Karl, the crippled dwarf hangman, whom he promises to give a new body, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and they hang the officiating priest instead. Under the...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Susan Denberg · Robert Morris · Thorley Walters

Plot Baron Frankenstein’s lab assistant Hans is sentenced to the gullotine for the murder of an innkeeper, although this is something that was really conducted by three drunken libertines. However Frankenstein...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Basil Rathbone · Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Lionel Atwill

Plot Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his fathers estate to claim his inheritance. When he arrives with his family he recieves a hostile reception from...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Shane Briant · David Prowse · Madeline Smith

Plot Last of the Hammer Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along...

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Robert De Niro · Kenneth Branagh · Helena Bonham Carter · Tom Hulce

Plot In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences...

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Leonard Whiting · Nicola Pagett · Michael Sarrazin · James Mason

Plot Victor Frankenstein is training to become a doctor when his younger brother tragically drowns. Unable to understand why God would take away his brother, Frankenstein declares his allegiance with the...

Direction J. Searle Dawley

Cast Mary Fuller · Charles Ogle · Augustus Phillips

Plot Frankenstein, a young medical students, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée...

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Peter Woodthorpe · Duncan Lamont · Sandor Elès

Plot Forced to leave town because of their experiments, Frankenstein and Hans return to Frankenstein’s hometown Karlstad and set up laboratory in the abandoned Frankenstein chateau. Frankenstein then finds his original...

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · John Carradine · Martha O'Driscoll · Lionel Atwill

Plot At the same time, both Count Dracula and the wolfman, Larry Talbot, arrive at the sanitarium of Dr Franz Edelman in Vasaria, seeking a cure for their various afflictions. Edelman...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Nick Adams · Kumi Mizuno · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Plot During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing...

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Boris Karloff · Tom Duggan · Jana Lund · Don 'Red' Barry

Plot Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times; he was tortured at the hands of the Nazis for not cooperating with them during World War II and he is...

Direction Kornél Mundruczó

Cast Kitty Csíkos · Rudolf Frecska · Lili Monori · Kornél Mundruczó

Plot Long ago, a young man fathered a child without ever knowing what became of him. Now 17, his son Rudi returns home hoping to reunite with his family after years...

Direction Kevin Connor

Cast Luke Goss · Alec Newman · Julie Delpy · William Hurt

Plot TV Miniseries (2004). 2 Episodes. The film follows the storyline of the book closely. Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a man from the parts of different corpses, and the creature turns...

Direction Franc Roddam

Cast Sting · Jennifer Beals · Anthony Higgins · Clancy Brown

Plot Sting is doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film "Bride of Frankenstein". After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets...

Direction Paul McGuigan

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · James McAvoy · Jessica Brown Findlay · Mark Gatiss

Plot Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But Victor’s experiments go...