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{{quote| ''"Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightnink!"'' }}
{{quote|''"Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightnink!"'' }}


'''''The Ghost of Frankenstein''''' is the fourth part in [[Universal]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'' films, released in 1942.
''[[The Ghost of Frankenstein]]'' is the fourth installment in [[Universal]]'s series of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' films, released in 1942.


Following the ''[[Son of Frankenstein (Film)|Son of Frankenstein]]'', we find out that Ygor ([[Bela Lugosi]]) survived being shot and still lives in the Castle Frankenstein. When the angry local villagers blow up the castle to get rid of the so-called "Frankenstein's curse", the [[Frankenstein's Monster]] (Lon Chaney Jr.) is accidentally freed from the sulfur pit where it fell in the last film.
Following the ''[[Son of Frankenstein]]'', we find out that Ygor ([[Bela Lugosi]]) survived being shot and still lives in the Castle Frankenstein. When the angry local villagers blow up the castle to get rid of the so-called "Frankenstein's curse", the [[Frankenstein's Monster]] (Lon Chaney Jr.) is accidentally freed from the sulfur pit where it fell in the last film.


Ygor then decides to take the monster to meet Ludwig Frankenstein, [[Remember the New Guy|previously unmentioned son of the original Dr. Frankenstein]], to persuade him to restore the Monster's strength.
Ygor then decides to take the monster to meet Ludwig Frankenstein, [[Remember the New Guy?|previously unmentioned son of the original Dr. Frankenstein]], to persuade him to restore the Monster's strength.


''The Ghost'' was the last of the original ''Frankenstein'' films and subsequent movies featuring the Monster were [[Monster Mash|Monster Mashes]], starting with ''[[Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Film)|Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man]]''.
''The Ghost'' was the last of the original ''Frankenstein'' films and subsequent movies featuring the Monster were [[Monster Mash|Monster Mashes]], starting with ''[[Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man]]''.
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=== ''The Ghost of Frankenstein'' brings us these all new thrills: ===


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* [[Alliterative Name]]: Erick Ernst.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Erick Ernst.
* [[Axe Before Entering]]
* [[Axe Before Entering]]
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Ygor has survived being shot in the last film.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Ygor has survived being shot in the last film.
** [[You Should Know This Already|And of course, the Monster returns from being plunged into a sulfur pit.]]
** [[You Should Know This Already|And of course, the Monster returns from being plunged into a sulfur pit.]]
* [[Blackmail]]: Ygor threats Ludwig to reveal Frankenstein's reputation to the citizens of Vasaria if he won't help The Monster.
* [[Blackmail]]: Ygor threats Ludwig to reveal Frankenstein's reputation to the citizens of Vasaria if he won't help The Monster.
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* [[Diary]]: Ludwig consults his father's diary for help.
* [[Diary]]: Ludwig consults his father's diary for help.
* [[For Science!]]
* [[For Science!]]
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: This happens to both the ambitious [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Bohmer]] and [[Complete Monster|Ygor]]. Ygor gets his brain transplanted into the Monster, only to go blind because he has a different blood type from the original intended transplantee; and a raging Ygor then hurls Bohmer into the machinery, electrocuting him.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: This happens to both the ambitious [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Bohmer]] and Ygor. Ygor gets his brain transplanted into the Monster, only to go blind because he has a different blood type from the original intended transplantee; and a raging Ygor then hurls Bohmer into the machinery, electrocuting him.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Ygor wants to have his brain put into the Monster so he can live forever. He gets his wish and then [[Gone Horribly Wrong|everything goes sour]]. First he goes blind, and then {{spoiler|he gets burned alive in the laboratory}}. And [[It Got Worse|it only gets worse]] if you remember that the Monster never gets a new brain in the series but is reduced in intellect to [[Dumb Muscle|a lumbering brute]]. [[Fridge Horror|Which means that Ygor was trapped inside an inarticulate monster's body]] [[And I Must Scream|forever.]]
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Ygor wants to have his brain put into the Monster so he can live forever. He gets his wish and then [[Gone Horribly Wrong|everything goes sour]]. First he goes blind, and then {{spoiler|he gets burned alive in the laboratory}}. And [[It Got Worse|it only gets worse]] if you remember that the Monster never gets a new brain in the series but is reduced in intellect to [[Dumb Muscle|a lumbering brute]]. [[Fridge Horror|Which means that Ygor was trapped inside an inarticulate monster's body]] [[And I Must Scream|forever.]]
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: This film establishes the lightning as the Monster's power source.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: This film establishes the lightning as the Monster's power source.
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: Monster's shadow is cast on a wall when lightning strikes.
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: Monster's shadow is cast on a wall when lightning strikes.
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* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Ludwig's lab blows up when the blinded monster starts thrashing around.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Ludwig's lab blows up when the blinded monster starts thrashing around.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]:
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]:
* [[Uberwald]]
* [[Überwald]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: The Monster until the brainswitch.
* [[The Voiceless]]: The Monster until the brainswitch.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Even with his brain in the Monster's body, Ygor keeps his voice.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Even with his brain in the Monster's body, Ygor keeps his voice.
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Latest revision as of 21:37, 26 May 2020

"...and then they will put my brain into your body!" "What."

"Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightnink!"

The Ghost of Frankenstein is the fourth installment in Universal's series of Frankenstein films, released in 1942.

Following the Son of Frankenstein, we find out that Ygor (Bela Lugosi) survived being shot and still lives in the Castle Frankenstein. When the angry local villagers blow up the castle to get rid of the so-called "Frankenstein's curse", the Frankenstein's Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) is accidentally freed from the sulfur pit where it fell in the last film.

Ygor then decides to take the monster to meet Ludwig Frankenstein, previously unmentioned son of the original Dr. Frankenstein, to persuade him to restore the Monster's strength.

The Ghost was the last of the original Frankenstein films and subsequent movies featuring the Monster were Monster Mashes, starting with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.

The Ghost of Frankenstein brings us these all new thrills:
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