15 Most Disturbing Sci-Fi Movies

Frankenstein is one of the most enduring stories in cinema, having enjoyed adaptations and re-adaptation from the beginnings of film to today. Frankenstein, or if you must, Frankenstein’s monster, is a pop-culture staple, appearing in movies, cartoons, games, comics and everywhere else that monsters find themselves.

In any adaptation the story of Frankenstein’s monster is a tragic one. It is most memorably so in the classic 1931 adaptation featuring Boris Karloff and again in the 1994 adaptation, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In both, the viewer really feels for a monster who is not a monster at all, just a creature who looks different.

In the ’31 adaptation, we see a monster who has a childlike innocence, come to a ghastly end. In the ’94 version, on gaining the trust of a blind man, who is not prejudiced by his appearance, Frankenstein is again betrayed and driven to monstrous acts that he does not fully comprehend.

It’s a tragedy of the science without checks, of the human need to endlessly develop without pause. It shows what monsters we can be if we don’t care for what we create.