9 Things Universal's Classic Monsters Reboot Needs To Do

2. Know Your Audience

2015 marked 80 years since the release of Bride Of Frankenstein, so the main audience for a remake, far from being adolescent boys, is more likely to be older. Sound unlikely? That€™s exactly what happened with Mad Max: Fury Road, whose opening night audience was comprised mainly of people who€™d watched the original films on VHS and spent decades waiting for the next one. George Miller seemed to know it, too, and made a movie that played to them instead of trying to explain the universe to the uninitiated. In Son Of Frankenstein, Universal€™s 1939 sequel to Bride, the monster is revealed to have survived the previous film€™s climactic explosion (and lost the ability to talk), but the bride herself isn€™t so much as mentioned. Perhaps a remake could pick up where Bride left off? After all, Bride Of Frankenstein has already been remade as The Bride, and who wants to be reminded of a movie that casts Sting as Dr Frankenstein?