Bride of Frankenstein
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when I went to sleep at night. It felt safe.
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Some of these youngsters -
seven, eight, nine years old -

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they know the script
backwards and forwards.

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Of course, with the advent of video, it
brought it into everybody's living room,

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and now on DVD.
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It perpetuates the availability,
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and the appeal is long-lasting
and multi-generational.

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It's a brilliant film, it's a work of genius.
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I think it's a picture in which the acting,
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particularly the performances of Karloff
and Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger,

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transcend anything you saw being done
in Hollywood at that time.

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Brilliant, almost operatic performances.
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And if ever somebody
needs to study a film

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to see how a director injects
his own personality into a picture,

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Bride of Frankenstein
is the perfect example.

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You can almost watch it and feel like
you spent an evening with James Whale,

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listening to his wit, his ideas, and
listening to his remarkable personality.

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It's all there in that movie.
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It's like an evening with Jimmy.
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1935 was an incredible year
for horror movies.

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In addition to Bride of Frankenstein,
there was Werewolf of London,

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The Raven, Mark of the Vampire and
Mad Love. All these are classics,

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but, almost 70 years later, Bride of
Frankenstein towers above them.

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As a follow-up, James Whale was
scheduled to direct Dracula's Daughter

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as a baroque black comedy even more
outrageous than Bride of Frankenstein.

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But the script was too much
for the censors.

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We missed the daughter,
but we still have the bride,

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and that's something to be grateful for.
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I'm Joe Dante.

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