Frankenstein (1931 film) in "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942) after his apparent murder in the earlier film). This character — a deranged blacksmith whose neck was broken and twisted due to a botched hanging — befriends the monster and later helps Dr. Wolf Frankenstein, leading to the "hunchbacked assistant" called "Igor" commonly associated with "Frankenstein" in popular culture. Frye also appears in later films in the series, such as in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943). Guillermo del Toro had expressed interest in directing the reboot film for Universal. Del Toro said his "Frankenstein" would be a faithful "Miltonian tragedy", citing Frank Darabont's
Frankenstein (1931 film) and starring Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This is also the sequel to "The Wolf Man", with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man. Karloff returned to the series, but not the role, in the follow-up, "House of Frankenstein" (1944), which also featured Chaney, and adds Dracula, played by John Carradine, and a hunchback for good measure. "House of Dracula" (1945) continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters. Many of the subsequent films which featured Frankenstein's monster demote the creature to a robotic henchman in someone else's plots, such as in its final Universal film appearance in