How can I praise or pick apart something that has become so much a part of our culture? Karloff's portrayal of the Monster is timeless and Colin Clive is bugnuts as the Doctor. He's quite insane and I still have not been able to buy the fact that he could have or would have wanted a bride for his own. He supposedly snaps out of the work funk he was in when he created the Monster but his character is too crazy for me to believe he could have or would even want a normal marriage. The guy is a grave-robbing mad scientist! Back to Karloff there's nothing really frightening about the Monster. I was much more sympathetic to it than I was toward any of the characters of the film. I don't think that was the original intent of the director though. When this film was released audiences were probably appalled by it. Maybe it's the Herman Munster effect that endears Karloff's Monster to us. One thing that made me laugh was when Dr. Frankenstein gets thrown off the top of the windmill lands on one of the vanes and then drops to the ground. The Doctor is injured but he survives. Tough guy to survive that fall. The fact that this was scary to audiences of the day is hard to believe because its really quite tame to view today. The original Dracula is the creepier of the two but I do prefer the look of "Frankenstein" than "Dracula".