Directed by James Whale · Masters of Horror profile
Boris Karloff under Jack Pierce's flat-top makeup. 'It's alive!' became the genre's battle cry.
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Expressionist sets and shadows shaped Universal's look; several Universal talents came from German film.
A towering, misunderstood clay man, a decade before Karloff.
Both adapt Mary Shelley; Whale's version became the definitive image.
Whale's own sequel.
The monster's comic farewell.
Hammer had to avoid copying Universal's makeup.
Del Toro has called Whale's film a lifelong inspiration.
Universal opened the castle doors, and the monsters became stars.