映画|フランケンシュタインの花嫁|Bride of Frankenstein

前作ラストで焼死オダブツしたと思われた怪物（ボリス・カーロフ）は生きていた！

ヘンリー・フランケンシュタイン博士（コリン・クライヴ）は、ヤバい研究はもうこりごりと反省し、愛する女性エリザベス（ヴァレリー・ホブソン）と共に正しく生きようと決めたんだが、そこに新キャラのプレトリアス博士（アーネスト・セシジャー）ってのがやってくる。

プレトリアス博士はヘンリーと同じ研究をやっている科学者だが、優柔不断なヘンリーとはおおちがいのマッドキャラ。狂気一直線の過激な戦闘スピリッツで強引にヘンリーを誘う。彼はいやがるヘンリーを説き伏せ、秘密の計画を実行する。それは怪物のおよめさんをつくることであった！

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感想

新登場するプレトリアス博士は「目的のためなら手段を選ばず！」といった調子でがんがん押してくるので、なかなかおもしろいです。

この映画では、ミニチュアサイズの人間という特撮シーンがあるんだけど、1935年の映画とは思えないできばえでびっくりしました。モノクロだからアラが目立たないということもあるんでしょうが、それにしてもこの時代でこれはすごくないですか。はっきりいって、この映画の50年後のチャールズ・バンドの映画（『Bad Channels (1992)』とか）と比べても遜色ないのではないか、とさえ思われました。

ボリス・カーロフ演じる怪物は、今回は少しだけ言葉をしゃべります。同情を誘う物悲しさは前作通りですが、言葉を得たことによってますます悲しみが強められています。また、怪物らしくガオーと吠え、鎖を引きちぎったりするシーンもあるからいいです。

そしてもちろん最後の見せ場は怪物のおよめさんです。ラスト10分でジャジャーンと登場します。おもしろいよ。

前作から引き続きヘンリー・フランケンシュタインとエリザベス、そしてもちろんボリス・カーロフの怪物が登場します。ヘンリー役のコリン・クライヴは前作そのままですが、エリザベスの女優さんがメイ・クラークからヴァレリー・ホブソンに変わりました。

Memorable Quotes

Mary Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.

Lord Byron: How beautifully dramatic! The cruelest savage exhibition of nature at her worst without.
Lord Byron: And we three. We elegant three within. I should like to think that an irate Jehovah was pointing those arrows of lightning directly at my head. The unbowed head of George Gordon, Lord Byron. England's greatest sinner. But I cannot flatter myself to that extent. Possibly those thunders are for our dear Shelley. Heavens applause for England's greatest poet.
Percy Shelley: What of my Mary?
Lord Byron: She's an angel.
Mary Shelley: You think so?

Villager: Well, I must say, that's the best fire I ever saw in all me life.

Dr. Pretorius: To a new world of gods and monsters!

Dr. Pretorius: We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.

Dr. Pretorius: My experiments did not turn out quite like yours, Henry. But science, like love, has her little surprises, as you shall see.
Henry Frankenstein: Good heavens, Doctor. What are these?
Dr. Pretorius: There is a pleasing variety about my exhibits. My first experiment was so lovely that we made her a queen. Charming, don't you think? Then, of course, we had to have a king. Now he's so madly in love with her that we have to segregate them. Now now. I have to be very careful with the king. Now, behave. My next production looked so disapprovingly at the other two that they made him an archbishop. He seems to be asleep. I must wake him up. The next one is the very devil. Very bizarre, this little chap. There's a certain resemblance to me, don't you think? Or do I flatter myself? I took a great deal of pains with him. Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. Oh, there's the king out again. Even royal amours are a nuisance. Poor Archbishop. He has his hands full. There. That'll keep you quiet. My little ballerina is charming, but such a bore. She'll only dance to Mendelssohn's "Spring Song", and it gets so monotonous. My next is very conventional, I'm afraid. But you can never tell how these things will turn out. It was an experiment with seaweed. Normal size has been my difficulty.
Henry Frankenstein: You did achieve size.
Dr. Pretorius: I need to work that out with you.
Henry Frankenstein: But this isn't science. It's more like black magic.
Dr. Pretorius: You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am. But listen, Henry Frankenstein, while you were digging in your graves piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life. I grew my creatures, like cultures. Grew them as nature does, from seed. But, still, you did achieve results that I have missed. Now, think. What a world-astounding collaboration we should be, you and I, together.
Henry Frankenstein: No. No, no, no.
Dr. Pretorius: Leave the charnel house and follow the lead of nature, or of God, if you like your Bible stories. Male and female, created He them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race, a man-made race upon the face of the earth. Why not?
Henry Frankenstein: I daren't. I daren't even think of such a thing.
Dr. Pretorius: Our mad dream is only half realised. Alone you have created a man. Now together we will create his mate.
Henry Frankenstein: You mean?
Dr. Pretorius: Yes, a woman. That should be really interesting.

The Monster: I cannot see and you cannot speak. Is that it?

The Monster: Alone, bad. Friend, good!

The Monster: We belong dead!

Dr. Pretorius: Do you know who Henry Frankenstein is, and who you are?
The Monster: Yes, I know. Made me from dead. I love dead... hate living.
Dr. Pretorius: You are wise in your generation. We must have a long talk, and then I have an important call to make.

Henry Frankenstein: I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life!

The Monster: I want friend like me.

Dr. Pretorius: I hope her bones are firm.

Dr. Pretorius: Here, have a cigar... they're my only weakness!

The Monster: Do you know who Henry Frankenstein is? And who you are?
Dr. Pretorius: Yes. I know. Made me from dead. I love dead. Hate living.
The Monster: You're wise in your generation. We must have a long talk, and then I have an important call to make.
Dr. Pretorius: Woman... Friend... Wife...

Henry Frankenstein: She's alive! Alive!

Villager: He isn't human. Frankenstein made him out of dead bodies.

Dr. Pretorius: The Bride of Frankenstein!

The Monster: Friend, friend.

The Monster: She hates me. Like others.

Elizabeth: Henry! Open the door! Henry!
Henry Frankenstein: Get back! Get back!
Elizabeth: I won't unless you come!
Henry Frankenstein: But I can't leave them! I can't!
The Monster: Yes, go! You live! Go! You stay. We belong dead.
Henry Frankenstein: Darling, darling.

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