Part of Philip Riley's republication of novelisations of various old movie scripts. I've really loved some like The Raven and Masque of the Red Death but found this a drag. I love the movie but reading this I realised the story isn't much - it's a retread of the first movie with Dr Pretorius standing in for Henry Frankenstein, who is a whiny passenger here, pushed along. Frankenstein's wife is a damp squib. There is some touching stuff with the monster and his search for a mate, but the themes are familiar to what we saw in the first movie. It doesn't help that Egremont isn't much of a writer - how he craps on for Pretorius' dialogue.
What makes Bride great is its treatment - Karloff, Clive, Thesinger, Whale's incredible direction. Found this heavy going.
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