Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A modern day take on the classic tale by Mary Shelley Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles & told entirely from the perspective of the Monster After he is artificially created then left for dead by a husb&-&-wife team of eccentric scientists Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression & violence from the world around him This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Boris Karloff stars as the screen&s most tragic & iconic monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made Dr Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with the essential nature of life & death by creating a monster (Karloff) out of lifeless human body parts Director James Whale&s adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel & Karloff&s compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity make Frankenstein a timeless masterpiece Actors Colin Clive Mae Clarke John Boles & Boris Karloff Director James Whale Certificate PGYear 1931 Languages English Subtitles English ...

A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith ...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled & engrossed readers for two centuries Written by Mary Shelley it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood & quicken the beatings of the heart& The tale is a superb blend of science fiction mystery & thriller Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature experiments with alchemy & science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity it turns on its maker & the novel darkens into tragedy The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose the grotesque surreal imagery & the multi-layered themes in the novel Although first published in 1818 Shelley&s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination & has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies television & stage adaptations ...

A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits Mary Shelley&s Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Maurice Hindle Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being shocking his creation to life with electricity But this botched creature rejected by its creator & denied human companionship sets out to destroy Frankenstein & all that he holds dear Mary Shelley&s chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron&s villa on Lake Geneva It would become the world&s most famous work of Gothic horror & Frankenstein&s monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity Based on the third edition of 1831 this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story as well as her 1831 introduction & Percy Shelley&s preface to the first edition This revised edition

Includes:: as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 & 1831 together with &A Fragment& by Lord Byron & Dr John Polidori&s & The Vampyre A Tale& Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of the author & political philosopher William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley whom she married when his first wife died in 1816 She is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein but she wrote several other works including Valperga & The Last Man If you liked Frankenstein you might enjoy Bram Stoker&s Dracula also available in Penguin Classics

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This timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man & monster In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long & tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship scientific hubris & horror ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It is the late 18th Century After the death of his beloved mother young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father & Elizabeth the adopted sister he passionately loves to attend university Here he becomes obsessed with the teachings of Professor Walman who believes that living creatures can actually be created from dead matter One electrifying night Frankenstein&s efforts are rewarded as his Creature struggles to life Alone despised & driven by a rage of emotional agony it sets off to find its maker & so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein Actors Robert De Niro Kenneth Branagh John Cleese Helena Bonham Carter Tom Hulce Cherie Lunghi Celia Imrie Richard Briers Ian Holm Robert Hardy & Aidan Quinn Director Kenneth Branagh Certificate 15 years & over Year 1994 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English (Dolby Digital Surround) Subtitles Czech ; English ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Polish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour 58 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A modern day take on the classic tale by Mary Shelley Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles & told entirely from the perspective of the Monster After he is artificially created then left for dead by a husb&-&-wife team of eccentric scientists Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression & violence from the world around him This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity ...

' Extraordinary A devastating but essential read' Kevin Powers bestselling author & National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds' Gripping darkly humorousprofound' Phil Klay bestselling author & National Book Award winner for Redeployment WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts & stitches them together to create a corpse His goal he claims is for the government to recognize the parts as people & give them a proper burial But when the corpse goes missing a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city & reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who though shot cannot be killed Hadi soon realises he has created a monster one that needs human flesh to survive
- first from the guilty & then from anyone who crosses its path An extraordinary achievement Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror & black humour the surreal reality of a city at war
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Sequel to both & The Ghost of Frankenstein& (1942) & & The Wolf Man& (1941) When grave robbers accidentally resurrect Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr)
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- he decides to seek a cure for his lycanthropic malady With Dr Frankenstein now dead Talbot is forced to turn to scientist Dr Frank Mannering (Patric Knowles) for help Mannering claims that not only can he banish the Wolf Man forever he also intends to resurrect Frankenstein&s dormant monster (Bela Lugosi) Followed by & House of Frankenstein& (1944)

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