Both Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein were both great movies, though, I preferred Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein a little bit more. I’m not really into those old comedies. Anyway that is not the point the point is that both movies no matter how different they seemed to be, were derived from the same original horror story written by Mary Shelly. The movies may have small similarities and that is because they both still come from Shelly’s original story.
Mary Shelly’s Frakenstein (the movie) has a strong basis upon the original story. Shelly wrote a horror story it continued as horror movie.
The movie is set in Geneva Switzerland in the 19th century (I think) and in a place called Ingolstad. The movie revolves around Victor Frankenstein, son of a wealthy Swiss doctor and a kid that saw everyone he ever loved die. He watches his mothe
Really other than the basis of the Frankenstein story the movies were completely different. The cast was nothing alike, one was set in Geneva and the other in Translyvania. Other thing include the endings Shelly’s Frankenstein end on a sad note, while Young Frankenstein was more of a happily ever after type ending. Then the obvious difference would Comedy to Horror, but differences aside they did have a few things in common. For example besides the basic Frankenstein story line both had a blind man that befriended the monster, in both movies the journal of Victor Frankenstein had a lot to do and in both movies the monster seemed to have a thing for the wife of Dr. Frankenstein. Now you can see that these movies are nothing alike, but exactly the same.
On the other end of the spectrum lies Young Frankenstein a comedic twist on the Frankenstein story by Mel Brooks. Young Frankenstein is