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Gorgeous Frankenstein’s Monster art by @fetlockflowers (@fetlock_flowers on Instagram). Isn’t he adorable? 🥺

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Victor Frankenstein didn’t stitch the Creature together; he used a glue gun.

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I need to find more 1930s Frankenstein fans guys, I feel so isolated on here.

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Sometimes book-only fans are just ableist towards the Universal version of the monster and I say it again. I literally saw them calling him things like "almost an animal", just like people in the movie.

I know, it's so sad to see people treat that version of the character like that. Just because they didn't make him intelligent and "beautiful" (which he was never meant to be anyway, not even in the book).

I think people forget that when we finally meet the Creature properly in the book, he was nearly two years old, having all that time to learn things. Whereas in the 1931 film, he's only about three days old when we see him for the first time. During that film and the Bride, he still learns remarkably quickly, learning to talk in the short time he was living with the blind man.

I just don't understand why book fans feel the need to go on about how bad the film is. They don't even say it's "not for them", they tell you how bad it is, as if that's the truth and everyone should share their opinion.

I think it's a shame that the version of the Monster created in the film replaced the book version in pop culture, the same goes for Dracula. I wish more people knew the original versions of both those stories, but I don't feel that hating on the original screen versions is going to change that.

How can people hate him so much? 🥺

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I made him a scarf to keep him warm this winter 🥺

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Happy birthday Elsa Lanchester!

Here she is in a lovely enhanced signed photo as the title character in "The Bride of Frankenstein" 1935, which I got from this website.

Love that caricature of her!