Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

  • 44% of critics liked it
    (36 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (51,825 ratings)

Director Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel stars Robert DeNiro as a terrifying monster created in an obsessive attempt to defeat death and stretch the limits of medicine in the early 19th century. With the use of flashback, a dying Dr. Viktor Frankenstein… More

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R, 1 hr. 58 min.
Directed By
Kenneth Branagh
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Nov 4, 1994 Wide
On DVD
Aug 7, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

    Branagh doesn't evoke terror, only repulsion.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    As this movie switches, unevenly, from swashbuckling adventure to classic horror to frilly-shirted romance to campiness to graphic gorefest, there's no telling what you're watching.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Something more substantial than Hollywood's typical, fitfully entertaining fluff.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    It is, in a word, dullsville.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The Creature is on target, but the rest of the film is so frantic, so manic, it doesn't pause to be sure its effects are registered.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Phil H


    Slightly better than 'Bram stokers Dracula' in the sense that its more sensible and realistic with less cheese haha De Niro is believeable as the monster and Brannagh is actually just right for 'Victor'. The rest of the cast much like Coppola's Dracula is… More

  • Bethany M


    Boring!

  • Jeff "


    This adaptation by Kenneth Branagh is much like Coppola's version of Dracula, they are very close to the original works of their respective creators. Branagh's vision for the adaptation of the classic Horror work is superb. I read the book in my early teens, and still… More

  • Drew S


    Sure, it's the most faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's book to date, but when all it amounts to is constant breathless hysteria, why would you even want to tune in? Kenneth Branagh's grandiosity as a director has served him well in his Shakespeare adaptations, as… More

  • Sajin P


    Except for De Niro's portrayal of 'The Creature', everything else about this movie was just plain mediocre. The main problem with the movie was that too much from the novel were squeezed into a 2 hr. movie. This ended up in the movie being frantically paced, without… More

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