To celebrate the release of The Bride!, we are delighted to present this double bill of director James Whales’s most enduring work. These films represent a number of peaks: of Whale’s artistry; of the classic Universal ‘monster’ movies; and in depictions of Frankenstein’s monster, as brought to sympathetic life by Boris Karloff in arguably his most iconic role, with both films containing indelible imagery that has become immediately identifiable in popular culture.

In the former, Doctor Henry Frankenstein’s experiments to animate a body assembled from various cadavers using the power of electricity leads to disaster and tragedy, while in the latter, the inspiration for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film, a former mentor encourages the doctor to create a mate for the creature in order to temper its violent impulses.

Notes by Kevin Coyne

Double bill tickets for Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) are available at IFI Box Office in-person or over the phone on (01) 679 5744.