Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

azathothpwiggins SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, or as it might be called today, FRANKENSTEIN 3: THE OFFSPRING, begins some time after the events of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. This time, young Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) shows up to claim his family castle, where the maniacal Ygor (Bela Lugosi) has set up shop. Not-so-shockingly, it doesn't take long before the family re-animating business, once again raises its green, bolted head. This was one of the last "serious" films in the so-called "series", before they spun off into an increasingly ludicrous la-la land of "monster mash" movies, winding up as fodder for Abbott and Costello. Boris Karloff got to play the monster one final time, before it became a schlock horror staple (not that that's a bad thing). Lugosi really sinks his teeth into his devilish role. Lionel Atwill's Inspector Krogh is his best character since Doctor X. Watching these old classics makes it even more clear just what a comic genius Mel Brooks is! His YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a perfect parody of the first three FRANKENSTEIN films. I admit to having a hard time viewing this without thinking about Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, etc.! Highly recommended... P.S.- Those really are some big door knockers!...

Hollywoodshack It reminds me of Roger Corman's Poe movies where old sets were used over for a short period of time to make a new spinoff like The Terror. All of the characters are leftover from when Frankenstein terrorized the land in the first movie directed by James Whale. A bad time filler was where the villagers and their leaders give the Son of Frankenstein his official unwelcoming ceremony to present his inherited papers. Why not just show an unwelcome atmosphere in the town? We also see the large sets from the first movie, while the maids greet the Frankenstein family with bedrooms that have two beds matched head to head, to guarantee dread. It all comes across as Mel Brooks parody satire instead of a serious film.

Artur Machado Sequel to 1935' "The Bride of Frankenstein". Wolf Frankenstein, son of Dr. Henry Frankenstein, decides to move in with his wife and son to the castle where his father had the laboratory where he created the Monster. It is clear that the inhabitants did not warmly welcome him because the stigma of past events still existed, but the police helped calm the moods. Wolf meets Ygor, a hunchback who becomes his assistant in the laboratory and tells him that the Monster has not been destroyed but instead is in a coma. Wolf Frankenstein, also a doctor and scientist, fascinated by his father's experiences, revives the Monster, but this one seems to have a connection with Ygor and only obeys him. Ygor then uses the Monster to take revenge and kill some of the villagers who tried and condemned him years ago.The atmosphere of this film seems minimalist compared to the previous two and does not have the horror impact of the predecessors, although the story is still very interesting and with some memorable performances, especially Inspector Krogh. But the end disappointed me: although in the end Wolf had 'saved the day', he was the main responsible for the chaos because it was he who revived the Monster, but what we get is him leaving with his family in a train and the whole population waving him goodbye cheerfully instead of being judged and blamed for his acts that led to the deaths of some more people. Does one good action erases the bad ones? Otherwise, interesting at least one viewing.

mike48128 Better than I remember it, but Ygor (Bela Lugosi), in my opinion, is dreadfully bad, or maybe it's just his cheesy beard and make-up? Basil Rathbone plays Wolf Von Frankenstein and Lionel Atwill is the Burgomaster. Surprisingly, the two strike up a kind of truce-friendship and both end up dumping poor Frankie into the electrically-charged sulfur pit churning under the laboratory. End of movie, but of course The Monster returns in just a few years (in "Ghost of Frankenstein".) Different sets, and the lab is in a two-storied outbuilding attached to the castle, filled with secret passageways and bad acting. The Monster has smoother facial features and Boris plays him masterfully, with pathos and tenderness, although he kills several people of insignificant stature, but never the nanny, wife or child. "Bride" remains the best and most fanciful chapter in these first three movies. You will notice quite a few scenes carried into Young Frankenstein, including the wooden arm, the huge knockers (thank you) and the dart match between "Wolf" and the "Burgomaster".