Good concept, poorly executed.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

So Frankenstein had another son. And this one is willing to destroy his father's creation until the ghost appears to him, pleading with him to fix him. He tries and... well I don't want to give away too much, Karloff wisely turned this one down, having played the monster three times. This is where quantity started to hurt quality.

The fourth Frankenstein movie starts with us finding out that the monster has survived his jump into the boiling sulfur pit and Ygor has survived the multiple bullets that Wolf Frankenstein lodged in his body. Not surprising, even if you didn't know there were more movies coming. Somehow they also manage to escape the exploding Frankenstein castle. They go to see the other Frankenstein son(yeppers there's another one), to force him to make the monster stronger. Even though this other brother lives within walking distance, no one in his town knows anything about his family or the monster. Once they get there, Ludwig Frankenstein decides he wants to give the monster a new brain and he wants Ygor to it explain it to him. That doesn't make any sense. The monster was unconscious. Why wait until he wakes up and make him mad? All that aside, it's not a terrible movie, though it might be better if you haven't seen the first three.

The running gag is that the castle looks different in every version after "The Bride of Frankenstein"! More turrets on this one! Kind of predictable and slow moving. The destroyed miniatures look so fake. The monster has a worse haircut and a hairline that is more familiar here, and looks that way thru "A&C Meet Frankenstein". (The make-up process has obviously been "streamlined".) Too familiar. The monster falls in love with a little girl (again) but does not hurt her. Ygor has his brain put in the monster and indeed it talks and thinks like Ygor. A major disappointment. Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein willingly dies with the monster? It makes no sense at all. Many chances at "horror" are wasted: Ygor just dies under anesthesia? The transplant is not graphic and is barely shown at all! The "Ghost" of Dr. Wolf Frankenstein is unconvincing, and nobody other than Ludwig even sees it. Overall, The whole movie is just not evil, creepy, scary or hideous enough. Lon Chaney Jr. has the monster's swagger down pat but no character emotion to speak off. So many unanswered questions plague the later films: Does The Monster remain blind? (No). How come he speaks only on rare occasions? Luckily, the next two entries are actually far more entertaining,if not even more preposterous!

This a a sequel to Son of Frankenstein. It is a great movie. It has a great story line. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. Do not think because something is old that can not be good. This is one of the scariest movies ever made. It is very intense. Frankenstein meets the wolf man better. House of Frankenstein is also better. House of Dracula is also better. This is scarier then Frankenstein (1931). And very few movie are scarier then that one. It is scarier then The bride of Frankenstein. If this movie does not scar you then no movie will. This is scarier then Son of Frankenstein. The monster wants a new brain. So find the son of Doctor Frankenstein who is also a scientist. Very scary.