20 Most Highly Rated Horror Movies On Rotten Tomatoes
7. The Bride Of Frankenstein
Rating: 100%
Like Evil Dead 2 and Aliens before it, James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein is another sequel that outranks the original. It’s not only Rotten Tomatoes that agrees either: it’s been ranked amongst the best films of all time by the like of Empire, Time and the National Film Registry too.
Made after the Hollywood Production Code was in force, The Bride of Frankenstein was subject to a different kind of censorship than its predecessor and fellow 1930s horror Freaks were though.
Even post-censorship cuts, which removed a lot of death scenes from the film, some overseas censors still had objections like in England where a fuss was made over its more necrophiliac elements and in Hungary where it was banned outright. Nevertheless, it found fans amongst critics and ranks as one of the highest grossing movies of 1935.
A loose remake called The Bride and starring tantric sex advocate Sting was released in 1985 but met with largely negative reviews and a forthcoming reboot is in the works as part of the wider Universal Monsters rebooted universe with Angelina Jolie rumoured to be taking the titular role first made famous by Elsa Lanchester. Whether it’ll top the heady heights of the original remains to be seen.