The Edison Kinetograph Company’s Frankenstein was released 102 years ago today, on March 18, in 1910. It is the only one of three Fran...

Happy Halloween-time Birthday to Bela Lugosi, born October 20, 1882. Related: When Frankenstein Met the Wolf Man

ON THIS DAY, October 3, in 1931, James Whale did some pickup scenes in around the laboratory set and said “Cut!” for the last time, after 35...

“ He’s just resting, waiting for a new life to come! ” On this very day, August 24, in 1931, Frankenstein began shooting. Eighty year...

Fond thoughts today for Peter Cushing who passed away August 11, in 1994. In a backstage shot from The Curse of Frankenstein (1957),...

Boris Karloff is treated to a birthday surprise on the set of Son of Frankenstein , November 23, 1938. Before the day was over, there woul...

On August 24, 1931, James Whale began shooting Frankenstein , starting with the opening scene from the movie. The camera pans across a...

An 1889 oil painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, The Funeral of Shelley , depicts a somber ceremony as the body of Percy Bysshe Shelley is ...

It was 75 years ago today, April 22, in 1935, that Bride of Frankenstein was released to critical and popular acclaim. In time, this extrao...

If you’ve never seen it, now’s the time. Here, 100 years to the day after it was first released, is the Edison Frankenstein . Hang in, the...

Lionel Atwill was born in Croyden, England, 125 years ago today, March 1 st 1885. The British-born actor became a Broadway sensation in 191...

Dr. Pretorius pulls the switch that electrified the Bride of Frankenstein to life. Careful of that overhead lever, please. That one’ll b...

The Bride of Frankenstein was a redhead. Elsa Lanchester was born in London on this day, October 28, in 1902. As a child, she studied ...

Bela Lugosi’s Monster gets jacked up to full power — “ The strength of ten men! ” — in a scene from Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943...

It is a scene etched in film history. Shot at a mountain lake location on September 28 and 29 in 1931, the drowning of the little girl in Fr...