This includesGuillermo del TorosFrankensteinandMaggie GyllenhaalsThe Bride.
It made $112 million worldwide on a $45 million budget.
Most of its profit came internally, which secured it as the highest-grossingFrankensteinfilm to date.
That also might have had to do with the talent involved.
What’s Frankenstein About?
Mary Shelleys Frankensteinfollows a similar plot that monster fans know by heart at this point.
Dr. Pretorius attempts to find Frankenstein’s monster, long believed dead, to further the scientific work started by Dr. Victor Frankenstein decades before.
Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who, using different body parts, reanimates a corpse back to life.
However, that achievement quickly becomes his greatest horror as his creation goes on a rampage.
When this film was released in the mid-90s,Frankensteinwas a story that was already done to death.
This was in large part due to the historic Universal andHammer films.
Both the1931 versionand HammersThe Curse of Frankensteinboth saw countless sequels.
Regardless of their quality, that further diluted the character’s menacing presence.
Also, with every new sequel,Frankensteinwould go further and further away from itstrailblazing source material.
That’s where Branaghs version had a slight leg up on its predecessors.
