Bride of Frankenstein

Review

Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making.

He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God.

And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fatale, monstrous and threatening.