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All-Time Sales Rank: 1930
| Overall Rating:   3.5 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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Be Warned. It's Alive.
Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm and John Cleese star in Branagh's acclaimed adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
True to the original, here is the story of a young doctor whose obsession with death leads him to create a life. But his "creature," crafted from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist, is a hideous mockery of humanity. And when the creature realizes he will never be accepted by men, he seeks revenge on Dr. Frankenstein and his family. An inspired adaptation that's emotionally complex and truly terrifying. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is "100% pure excitement. Visually stunning and refreshingly different" (Paul Wunder, WBAI Radio).
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| | Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround
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| Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Production Year: 1994
Release Date: 7/28/1998
Length: 123 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 28
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: DS-SL
Item Code: 78719
UPC Code: 043396787193
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Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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Avoid this monstrous insult to the author - 1.25 out of 5 (10/21/2005)
Early versions of the famous novel, like James Whales's beautiful 1931 and 1935 films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" respectively, make no pretense to literalism, nor do subsequent versions from Hammer Films or elsewhere. The 1974 TV movie (not on DVD yet) "Frankenstein: the True Story" was only given its misleading title by publicity-seeking network producers at the last moment: the script by the great Christopher Isherwood was an artistic and somewhat homoerotic trope on the novel
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I take my hat off to Kenneth Brannagh! - 4.25 out of 5 (10/30/2001)
This is the only Frankenstein film ever made that is true to the book. Those made by James Whale were entertaining in a comical way, but the idea of taking Mary Shelley into account never remotely occurred to Mr. Whale. True, no one could have played the part better than Karloff (although De Niro is good), but this is the only version that truly deserves the title "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". The others are all Hollywood's Frankenstein. This one did for Frankenstein what Francis Ford Coppola d
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Dr. Frankenstein...the ORIGINAL re-animator! - 4.25 out of 5 (8/1/1998)
Mary Shelley wrote her classic novel more than 200 years ago. In a time of great paranoia over things like the plague, and fear of the paranormal running an all time high, it was just the book to reflect and expound such fears. However, no movie has really attempted to capture the novel's authenticity, until this one.
Much like the book, Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein is not horror in the traditional sense, but very much so in the psychological sense. This movie is disturbing in many ways, a
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