Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Updating of the classic horor tale with Robert De Niro as
the creature, and Kenneth Branagh as the doctor.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - The creature emerges nude from an artificial birthing
chamber: There is brief frontal nudity, in deep shadows, and a man is shown shirtless.
There are a couple of passionate kisses and a wedding night scene in which the couple
loosen each others' clothing and make love. Dr. Frankenstein marries a girl who was
adopted by his family and raised as his sister.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A dissected human body is shown, and several scenes of
doctors cutting into bodies, just barely off-screen. The list of body parts includes a
severed monkey arm which is re-animated and a human brain. There are close-ups of
hypodermic needles entering a body, and body parts being stitched together with a needle.
The creature steals a corpse from a grave and rips the heart out of the chest of a living
person. A young boy is murdered off-screen, and the act is described in sadistic detail.
Two characters set themselves afire. A woman dies in childbirth. A man is stabbed to death
and his bloody body is shown. There are two hangings. People are shown to be dying from
cholera, and the creature evades a mob by riding atop a cart filled with dead bodies. The
creature is beaten with clubs. A sailor is tossed overboard into frigid water, and another
is crushed by a falling mast.
A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we
started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were
not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please
keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period.
While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are
limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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