Listed as one of TIME’s 100 greatest films, Bride of Frankenstein features one of Hollywood’s most famous hairdos — the iconic white-streaked beehive that graces the head of Elsa Lanchester, the bride that was not to be. As TIME’s Richard Schickel wrote in his appraisal of the film, “This is one of those rare sequels that is infinitely superior to its source. Boris Karloff is a perfect klutz as the monstrously eager lover of Elsa Lanchester, whose creator, the divinely hysterical Colin Clive, endowed her with virginity and attitude. It is a perfect little masterpiece of high camp, not untouched by pity, terror and the desire to satirize boy-girl romances.” It is probably the finest moment for director James Whale, who was behind the original Frankenstein as well as The Invisible Man, another classic Universal Studios horror flick.
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