Bride of Frankenstein

Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Year: 1935
Director: James Whale
Writer: William Hurlbut & John L. Balderston, based on a novel by Mary Shelley
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Music: Franz Waxman
Distinctions: Oscar nomination for Best Sound Recording; formerly on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein is coerced into building another monster
Length: 75 minutes
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), September 2008
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad).
Objective Rating: 3/10 (gets points for concept, cinematography and music) c. 1.7/4 (Eh).

The story's an incoherent mess. Characters that should be the leads (and are played by good actors) such as Dr. Frankenstein have relatively small parts compared to characters that should be bit parts (and are played by terrible actors) such as a shrill, screaming old woman.  The music is weird and distracting... but I'm okay with that.  It looks good visually, but it bothers me that they can't make up their minds about what century it's taking place in.