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 Rover", 12 June 1844, mentioned "the maker of poor Frankenstein." After the release of Whale's cinematic "Frankenstein", the public at large began speaking of the creature itself as "Frankenstein". This also occurs in Frankenstein films, including "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) and several subsequent films, as well as in film titles such as "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein". Furthermore, the 1939 film "Son of Frankenstein" introduced an evil laboratory assistant, Ygor (Bela Lugosi), who never existed in the original narrative. Mary Shelley maintained that she derived the name "Frankenstein" from a dream-vision. Despite her public claims of originality, however, a number