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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.
