“We belong dead”: Boris Karloff as the creature in “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935).
Published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s gothic novel “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus,” about a doctor who reanimates dead tissue and brings a collection of body parts to life, has inspired scores of film and TV adaptations – horrific and comic – on its themes of life, creation, and how the powers of science can be misused.
Scroll through our gallery to view a few of the more famous or notorious examples.
