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Frankenstein
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #914
- IMDb #739
- Google retired #1317
- Rotten Tomatoes #509
- Metacritic #231
- Letterboxd #1233
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #533
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #938
- Metacritic Critics #166
- Metacritic Audience #770
- Criticker #2398
- Douban #1186
- Kinopoisk #1546
- AlloCiné #744
- Trakt #1599
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 42, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 92, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A ambitious scientist seeks to unlock the secret of life itself. He succeeds in assembling a living being from body parts of the deceased and animating it. However, he is horrified by his creation, a monstrous and childlike creature he immediately rejects. The abandoned and confused being escapes into the countryside, seeking understanding but instead inciting fear and violence from everyone it encounters.
Details
- Director
- James Whale
- Writers
- Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort
- Based on
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 21 November 1931
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Latin
- Runtime
- 70 min
- Budget
- $262.0K
- Box office
- $12.0M
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Cast
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Awards
7 wins & 3 nominations total
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