There is a plot in the film. When the monster is traveling through the woods, she meets the little girl Maria. Maria is throwing flowers into the pond. The monster also throws the flowers like her, but soon the flowers are gone. The monster who couldn't find anything walked towards Maria, and all the copies of the film ended here. During the first filming, the next episode was that the monster threw Maria down the river. He thought the little girl would float on the water like those petals, but the little girl sank immediately, and the monster was puzzled. The footage was cut off because it was too cruel.
Bella Lugosi was the first person to play the monster in the film, but he had objections to the monsters not being able to speak, and insisted on designing the monster's appearance by himself, but in the end his design was rejected. According to film historian Richard J. Anobile, the original director of the film was Robert Florey, and Bella Lukosi should play Dr. Frankenstein, and Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures, insisted that he play the monster. Soon afterwards, Robert Florey was replaced by James Whale, and Bella Lugosi was replaced by Boris Karloff.
Originally, Leslie Howard played Frankenstein and Betty Davis played Elizabeth, but the director insisted that Colin Clive played Frankenstein.
John Caradan refuses to play a monster because he feels he is being overkilled.
After giving life to the monster, Dr. Frankenstein said: "Now I know what it's like to BE God!" This line was included in the first round of the film, but when it was re-released in the late 1930s, the review department Thinking that this sentence blasphemed God and asked to cut it off, a thunderstorm replaced the original line. Later, this passage was successfully restored.
The promotional poster of the film when it was released in 1931 was once valued at $600,000.
Boris Karloff, who plays the monster, had to take off his dentures while applying makeup.
Ken Strickfaden was responsible for the electric shock effects in the film and became a stand-in for Boris Karloff when he was shocked.
The scene of Maria drowning in the water was shot several times and still failed. The little actor who played Maria was exhausted at the time. Director James Whale said that if she agreed to shoot again for the last time, she could agree to any of her conditions. As a result, the little actor She asked for a dozen hard-boiled eggs, and Wyler later gave her two dozen.
In the original novel of Mary Shelley, there is no mention of how the monster was resurrected by Dr. Frankenstein, and it is very different from the monster image in the film.
According to the yearbook of People magazine, the monster in the film was named Adam by Frankenstein, but was later cut off because the audience was more willing to accept the title of "monster".
Some of the scenes in the film were set in the 1927 "Videotape Murder".
The film was banned in Kansas because it was considered cruel and unethical.
The ownership of the monster image designed by Jack P. Pierce will continue until 2026.
The script originally designed Frankenstein to die at the end.
