Bela Lugosi (inset), Boris Karloff (inset), Basil Rathbone. THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1942. Image Credit: Everett Collection Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr. I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, 1957.

Basil Rathbone, who played many a ... Plot-wise, this tremulously hovers between Frankenstein and zombie/undead narratives. But once evil Dr. Hill starts carrying around his own severed head, ...

Everett Collection. Son of the original mad scientist, Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) begins with the best of intentions when he returns to his father's fateful estate, but he succumbs to ...

The final film in Universal's original trilogy sees Basil Rathbone as Victor Frankenstein's son, who inherits the family's monstrous legacy.

Son of Frankenstein (1939), however, does have a lot of things going for it, though—the sets, the Frank Skinner musical score, a few fine moments for Karloff, an iconic role for Lionel Atwill ...

Basil Rathbone is the “Son of Frankenstein,” as if dear old dad wasn’t bad enough. The younger Frankenstein returns to the family castle (always a bad move) ...

Plenty of horror (and film) fans hold James Whale’s Bride Of Frankenstein in even greater esteem than his 1931 original. But the series continued past that high-water mark, and the less-known ...