The Curse of Frankenstein

At age 15, the death of Victor's mother Caroline leaves him in sole control of the Frankenstein estate. He agrees to continue paying a monthly allowance to his impoverished aunt Sophia and his young cousin Elizabeth Lavenza.

Victor hires scientist Paul Krempe to tutor him, setting the stage for years of intense study and collaboration. Over the next two years they deepen their knowledge and begin experimenting together.

During their early experiments, the pair brings a dead puppy back to life, demonstrating their growing skill with reanimation. The success fuels Victor's ambition to push further into creating life.

Victor proposes constructing a perfect human from body parts, and Paul assists at first but eventually withdraws due to moral concerns over harvesting corpses.

Victor collects a robber's corpse and buys hands and eyes from charnel workers to assemble the creation. He also seeks Bernstein's brain to grant it intellect.

Victor lures Professor Bernstein to his house under the guise of a friendly visit, then pushes him over the stair banister to make his death look accidental and steal the brain.

Bernstein's funeral occurs, and Victor retrieves the brain from the vault. A scuffle with Paul damages the brain, compromising its potential intelligence.

Elizabeth comes to live with them and refuses to leave the house. Paul tries to warn and protect her, but he cannot reveal the full details of Victor's experiments.

With all parts assembled, Victor animates the creature, but the damaged brain leaves it violent and lacking Bernstein's intelligence. The monster begins its violent existence.

The creature escapes the laboratory and kills an old blind man in the woods. Paul shoots the creature in the eye, and Victor buries it in the woods.

Paul leaves town, and Victor digs up the creature to bring it back to life again, continuing his dangerous experiment in secret.

Justine, with whom Victor has been having an affair, claims she is pregnant by him and threatens to tell the authorities about his experiments if he refuses to marry her.

Paul returns to the house the evening before Victor and Elizabeth's wedding. Victor reveals the revived creature to Paul, who refuses to report Victor to the authorities.

The monster threatens Elizabeth from the roof; Victor shoots Elizabeth by mistake and, with no bullets left, hurls an oil lamp at the creature. The clothes burn and the monster falls into a vat of acid, destroying all evidence of its existence. The priest does not believe Victor's story, and Paul refuses to testify; Victor is led away to the guillotine.