Bride of Frankenstein 1935 quotes

I want to see with my own eyes...If I can see his blackened bones, I can sleep at night.
Hans' wife: Oh Hans, he must be dead. And dead or alive, nothing can bring our little Maria back to us.

Henry

Look out! The lever!

Pretorius

Get away from that lever. You'll blow us all to atoms.
...

Henry! Open the door! Henry!

Henry

Get back! Get back!

I won't unless you come!

Henry

I can't leave them, I can't.

Monster

Yes, go! You live! Go! [To Pretorius] You stay! We belong dead!

Henry

Forget? If only I could forget but it's never out of my mind. I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of Life. Perhaps death is sacred and I profaned it. For what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of - the formula for life. Think of the power to create a man - and I did it. I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

Henry, don't say those things. Don't think them! It's blasphemous and wicked. We are not meant to know those things.

Henry

It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the Divine Plan.

No, no! It's the Devil that prompts you. It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all...Listen Henry, while you've been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn't sleep. And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room. It comes, a figure like Death, and each time it comes more clearly - nearer. It seems to be reaching out for you, as if it would take you away from me. There it is. Look! There!

Henry

I see nothing, Elizabeth. Where? There's nothing there.

There! There! It's coming for you! Nearer! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry!

Get out the bloodhounds. Raise all the men you can, lock the women indoors, and wait for me.

Look, it's the Monster!

Hermit

What are you doing? This is my friend!

Friend?! This is the fiend that's been murdering half the countryside. Good heavens, man, can't you see?...He isn't human. Frankenstein made him out of dead bodies.

Karl

I can smell the ghosts already.

I never could stand graves.

Karl

If there's much more like this, what do you say, pal? We give ourselves up and let 'em hang us.

That goes for me too.

Karl

This is no life for murderers!

Karl

It was a very fresh one.

Henry

Where did you get it?

Karl

I gave the gendarme fifty crowns.

Henry

What gendarme?

Karl

It was a ...police case.

Pretorius

Yes, very sad. Although we can't bother about that now.

The crudest, savage exhibition of Nature at her worst without, and we three, we elegant three within. I should like to think that an irate Jehovah was pointing those arrows of lightning directly at my head, the unbowed head of George Gordon Lord Byron, England's greatest sinner. But I cannot flatter myself to that extent. Possibly those thunders are for dear Shelley - heaven's applause for England's greatest poet.

What of my Mary?

She is an angel.

You think so?

Do you hear? Come, Mary. Come and watch the storm.

You know how lightning alarms me. Shelley darling, will you please light these candles for me?

Mary, darling.

Astonishing creature.

I, Lord Byron?

Frightened of thunder, fearful of the dark. And yet you have written a tale that sent my blood into icy creeps.

Look at her Shelley. Can you believe that bland and lovely brow conceived of Frankenstein, a Monster created from cadavers out of rifled graves? Isn't it astonishing?

I don't know why you should think so. What do you expect? Such an audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So why shouldn't I write of monsters?

No wonder Murray's refused to publish the book. He says his reading public would be too shocked.

It will be published, I think.

Then, darling, you will have much to answer for.

The publishers did not see that my purpose was to write a moral lesson. The punishment that befell a mortal man who dared to emulate God.

Well, whatever your purpose may have been, my dear, I take great relish in savoring each separate horror. I roll them over on my tongue.

Don't, Lord Byron. Don't remind me of it tonight.

What a setting in that churchyard to begin with. The sobbing women, the first plod of earth on the coffin. That was a pretty chill. Frankenstein and the dwarf stealing the body out of its new-made grave, cutting the hanged man down from the gallows where he swung creaking in the wind. The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human Monster, so fearful - so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised. And then the murder! The little child drowned. Henry Frankenstein himself thrown from the top of the burning mill by the very Monster he had created. And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare.

I do think it a shame, Mary, to end your story quite so suddenly.

That wasn't the end at all. Would you like to hear what happened after that? I feel like telling it. It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.

I'm all ears. While heaven blasts the night without, open up your pits of hell.

Well then, imagine yourselves standing by the wreckage of the mill. The fire is dying down. Soon, the bare skeleton of the building will be dissolved. The gaunt rafters against the sky.

Minnie

It's alive! The Monster! It's alive!

You're an old fool. We don't believe in ghosts.

Minnie

Nobody will believe me. What? I'll wash my hands of it. Let them all be murdered in the beds.

Pretorious

I charge you as you value your mistress' life to do nothing and say nothing of this episode. I assure you that the Baronness will be safely returned if you will leave everything to me. Nothing, that is, except what he demands.

Henry

I admit I'm beaten. But if you can bring her back, I'll do anything that you want.

Pretorius

I give you the Monster. [The Monster enters] Oh, I thought I was alone. Good evening.

Monster

Smoke? Friend.

Pretorius

Yes, I hope so. Have a cigar. They are my only weakness.

Monster

Drink. Good. You make man like me?

Pretorius

No. Woman. Friend for you.

Monster

Woman - Friend - Yes - I want Friend, like me.

Pretorius

I think you can be very useful. And you will add a little force to the argument if necessary. Do you know who Henry Frankenstein is and who you are?

Monster

Yes, I know. Made me from dead. I love dead. Hate living.

Pretorius

You're wise in your generation. We must have a long talk, and then I have an important call to make.

Monster

Woman - Friend - Wife.

Pretorius

All the necessary preparations are made. My part in the experiment is complete. I have created by my method a perfect human brain, already living but dormant. Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration.

Henry

No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear. I've changed my mind. I won't do it!

Pretorius

I expected this. [opens the door, revealing The Monster]

Henry

No, not that.

Pretorius

Oh he's quite harmless, except when crossed.

Monster

Frank - en - stein.

Pretorius

Yes, there have been developments since he came to me.

Monster

Sit down.

Henry

What do you want?

Monster

You know.

Henry

This is your work?

Pretorius

Yes.

Henry

I'll have no hand in such a monstrous thing.

Monster

Yes, must.

Henry

Get him out! I won't even discuss it until he's gone.

Pretorius

Go now. [The Monster growls] Go!

Monster

Must do it!

Henry

Never! Nothing can make me go on with it.

Pretorius

It is interesting to think, Henry, that once upon a time, we should have been burnt at the stake as wizards for this experiment.

Henry

Doctor, I think the heart is beating! Look, it's beating, but the rhythm of the beat is uneven.

Pretorius

Increase the saline solution. Is there any life yet?

Henry

No. Not life itself yet...This action only responds when the current is applied.

Pretorius

You must be patient. The human heart is more complex than any other part of the body. Look, the beat is increasing.

Henry

Yes! ...It stopped.

Pretorius

Shall I increase the current?

Henry

This heart is useless. I must have another, and it must be sound and young.

Pretorius

Leave the charnel house and follow the lead of Nature - or of God if you like your Bible stories. Male and Female created He them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race, a man-made race upon the face of the earth. Why not?

Henry

I daren't. I daren't even think of such a thing.

Pretorius

Our mad dream is only half realized. Alone, you have created a man. Now together, we will create his mate.

Henry

You mean...?

Pretorius

Yes. A woman. That should be really interesting.