Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
The Evil of Frankenstein 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. In North America, the film was released on 6 September 2005 along with seven other Hammer horror films on the 2-DVD set "The Hammer Horror Series" (ASIN: B0009X770O), which is part of MCA-Universal's "Franchise Collection", with two films per each side of the discs. In 2015, the set was released as a 4-DVD set putting two films per disc due to major glitches the original set had. This set was re-released on Blu-ray on 13 September 2016. The Evil of Frankenstein The Evil of Frankenstein is a 1964 film directed by Freddie Francis. It stars Peter