Frankenstein's Bride (2026) Movie Script

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[footsteps approaching]
[door opens]
Hmm...
Finally.
I am so happy for you two.
Let's begin.
What is love?
Our poets have
struggled for centuries.
As have our writers,
our artists,
our theologians.
But our scientists wondered
if it was just an
equation to be solved.
And it turns out that true love
begins and ends
with the heart.
It is this connection
that binds.
Here stands a man before me
who was robbed
of love in his first life.
Who else to fill this
role than the woman
who took her own
when her true love,
this man, was robbed from her.
Now finally reunited
for marriage today.
So these two once
lifeless vessels
now standing
before me full of life,
once again.
In hopes to go forth
as the beloved
ushers of a brand new...
[door opens]
A more blasphemous act
I've never laid my eyes upon.
John Clerval.
You and your brood have
travelled quite some distance
for an event
you were not invited.
So you recognize me?
You have the unmistakable
impression of your cousin.
The late Dr. Henry Clerval.
A profound loss to us all.
And yet we expected you
at his funeral.
He did not care about him.
He doesn't care about anyone.
State your business...
Or stay for the matrimony.
-To stay?
-To this abomination.
[laughing]
Let's continue.
Your days of playing God
are over, Dr. Frankenstein.
Wait.
I assure you that I
am not playing God.
That was your cousin.
My partner that
wanted that distinction.
If this is about money...
We know all about your infamous
Dr. Frankenstein's castle.
You can have
Dr. Clerval's share.
My days of reanimating
anyone are over.
You fool, Frankenstein.
[screaming]
No!
Stay back!
Do not let their violence
keep you from your love.
You fool, Victor!
This is about what
is rightfully ours!
[screams]
No!
What have you done?
[laughing]
Can we use them?
No, it's too risky.
So kill them.
But they're dead, right?
What about Dr. Frankenstein?
We need him.
-My love!
-Chop the others up.
We'll use them for mincemeat.
Oh, meat pies for dinner!
Give me that.
Move.
[grunts]
Ooh!
[laughing]
[screaming]
John! The fire!
We must go!
Harris, grab the rest of him.
Louise, Mary,
help me with Frankenstein.
Come on, hurry!
[Bride screams]
We shall take this monster
to cousin Henry's manor.
You clean that blade
more than you use it.
Be thankful, sister.
If not for this blade
you wouldn't be cooking
your hardy rabbit stew.
Hardy? You killed the
carrot stalks mostly.
Stop bickering.
Felix does a fine
job at providing food.
And you, my dear Agatha,
an equally fine job
of making it edible.
You know, you both do not
need to stay
and watch over me any longer.
Please, Papa.
We will stay
until they find Mama.
Unless the monster got her.
Stop it.
Even in the dark I can
see you bickering.
[both]
Sorry, Papa.
There is no monster.
Papa, he stood a foot
above the tallest of men
with a face that--
What do I care about his face?
About how tall he was?
He was frightening.
Not to me.
You can't see.
Felix, the monster you are
searching for
will never look like the ghouls
you used to read about
in your picture books.
They are more
insidious than that.
Their minds are corrupt.
All they know
is lies and deceit.
You will not recognize them
because they
look like you and me.
But this creature
that came up to you...
Was seeking friendship.
Is that so bad?
Felix tries his best
at keeping friends away.
Not true.
I'm a wonderful friend.
[sniffing]
What is it, Father?
Smoke.
Looks like it's coming from
the old church at the hill.
A bad omen.
I'll grab a bucket.
I'll fetch some water.
Whoa, children.
Go to the town's elders.
-Enlist help from them.
-There's no time!
People could be in danger.
Mama could be in that fire.
Tread carefully.
We'll be back soon.
Bad omen.
Bad omen.
[screaming]
[coughs]
[gasps, moans]
[crying]
[screams]
Someone's alive.
Felix.
No.
Are you okay?
It's okay. It's okay.
We're here to help.
Agatha, I don't know about this.
She looks dangerous.
Put that blade down.
Do it.
You look hurt.
Beloved.
Oh...
My beloved.
That's the monster!
Felix, shh.
Quiet. Shh.
Agatha, no!
Look at her!
She must be a monster, too.
No, no. Wait.
Is that?
Beloved.
I'll call the elders.
I'm Agatha.
And that imbecile's
my brother Felix.
A... gatha.
Imbecile.
Can we leave?
We have to take
her back to our home.
No, we don't. Why?
We've got medicine.
I can patch her up there.
We have medicine
at the infirmary.
Infirmary? Do you want
what happened to Mother
to happen to her?
We don't know what
happened to Mother.
Well, I'm not risking that fate.
Come with us.
We can help you.
Well, at least, put
that thing in here.
Come on.
Okay, let's go.
This way.
Be careful.
Stop staring, Felix.
I would stop staring,
but she's cradling a monster's
head right in front of me.
Stop.
This poor creature
has been through enough.
You need to show
a bit of decency
whilst you're in my household.
My dear, I remember
your betrothed.
He came here to my cottage.
He was very kind.
Others, I'm afraid, are very
nervous around my affliction.
But he treated me with
respect and decency.
I was not a helpless child, and
he was not a ghoulish monster.
So we owe it to him to show
this woman the same courtesy.
Did you love him?
Mm-hmm.
How could she know love?
-Get out!
-Felix!
This isn't right.
This isn't normal.
And I suspect she has something
to do with
Mother's disappearance.
Out!
Papa, please don't
be hard on Felix.
Do you want to leave, too?
Now, why were you at the church?
Her gown.
I think she was getting married.
Love finds a way.
Your gown is ruined.
It must have been so pretty.
Sorry. Sorry.
I didn't mean to.
I made her jump.
Are you okay?
Agatha, fetch
some water, please.
[heavy breathing]
Clervals.
What?
What is a Clerval?
I don't think it's a what.
I think the Clervals are a who.
Do we know any Clervals?
Your man, Mr. Clancy, is late.
He's lazy, that pig.
Iris, you're a dope fiend.
What are these marks?
I'm not a dope fiend.
Oh, those are needle marks.
A degenerate,
just like the others.
Laudanum in his veins,
madness in his head.
Let me see.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
What?
Pay him no mind.
He's just looking for tonic.
No, I'm not. I'm not.
I'm just making sure he
doesn't stab himself again.
Mad scientist.
A megalomaniac.
A needleman.
He looks more like
a dead man to me.
So tell me.
Who was in charge when
you killed our cousin?
Tell me, where's the groomsman
and the bride?
You're lucid now?
Oh, I hope not.
Oh, so this is a joke to him.
What happened?
They're dead.
I sliced that monster up myself.
And the bride was
burned to ashes.
There's nothing left
of your experiments.
It's as though
you never mattered.
Well, then kill me now.
Life, death,
it's the same side of the coin.
Not to me.
Not to Henry.
You killed him so that you could
keep the electrical equation
that makes the machine
work to yourself
and be the only one
to wield its power.
No. That same power
sent your cousin mad
and he killed himself
believing he'd become immortal
after being resurrected
on the Blood Moon.
[groans]
You need my help.
The Blood Moon is upon us.
John knows all
about the Blood Moon.
The journals that we did
find explain its connection
to gaining immortality
from the machine,
but not how to start it.
Henry was troubled.
He wasn't right in the head.
Although I can see the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree.
Silence!
You speak when
I tell you to speak.
Now, these journals
that we find,
they're a waste of time, full
of theories and conjectures.
This is concerned with
reanimating a cat and a mouse.
Well, that was your cousin.
As I mentioned, he was not...
[groans]
[giggling]
None of these journals
tell me what I need to know.
And what is that?
Henry said you wrote down
the equation in a red journal.
But where? With it,
we can power the machine
and bring him back
to life and become commanders
in his immortal army.
I get the biology,
the physiology.
I believe I understand
the process,
but the engineering?
Only you and Henry
knew how it worked.
If you don't tell us where
the blasted red journal is,
we will torture you into telling
us the equation yourself.
My machines were not
made for human replication.
Immortality can
only be achieved
if you combine the effects
of the machine
with the special serum
I developed.
It will block the effects of
the Blood Moon mind control.
Otherwise, you'll
become a slave to it.
The serum you seek, it enhances
life, but it is not stable.
You've seen the
result with my bride.
If it works on one,
then it works on others.
We'll build an army
of super soldiers led by Henry
and rule this
land for all eternity.
You think I will help you?
No. No.
But Henry wrote it down.
He told us all about
it before he died.
So where did you hide
that red journal
with the
electrical equation?
If we find those journals
before you tell us, you die.
If I show you how to work
my machines, I still die.
No.
Much, much worse than that.
I will keep reanimating you
and killing
you throughout eternity.
I know what Henry had planned.
You do not want it.
You cannot fix it!
John.
John. John!
May I speak with you?
What is it?
Tonic.
Found it in his coat pocket.
So?
Well, I was told from people
who have been on tonic
that it makes you
say things
that you wouldn't
ordinarily say.
Oh, I can use that
on so many people.
[panting]
We've got to do things
a little bit differently now,
Dr. Frankenstein.
I will never tell.
So long as I hold
off your plans.
[groans]
Death...
You will tell us where those
journals are, Dr. Frankenstein.
Henry would not want this.
Do not claim to
know Henry better
than his own kin, Frankenstein.
You were the one
who betrayed him.
You were the one who was
supposed to bring him back.
But instead, you sent
him home in a box,
discarded like some kind of
broken children's play toy!
Do it.
[moans]
[rooster crows]
Kill... Clervals.
Can I come in now?
Will you show some manners?
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry.
Good. Now that that's
over with,
do you know anyone with
the surname Clerval?
No. But we must suspect
that Dr. Frankenstein
is behind this.
Surely this is his handiwork.
-The reanimation, perhaps.
-But not the violence.
How can you be so sure?
I mean, the monster...
Do you want to go outside again?
Well, look, there is
a man in town here.
He knows all
and he sees all.
No.
He is really
the only one to ask.
He is one of the monsters
I warned you about.
Oh, he's harmless.
If you pay him enough.
Yes, so we'll pay him.
With what?
My carrot stew?
Sword!
Kill Clervals!
We'll go to the constable.
Surely they would apprehend
the Clervals for arson at least.
The Constable? No.
He will see what Felix sees
and condemn our bride on sight.
And maybe those around
her that are assisting her.
No.
He is a decent man,
but not very smart.
Fine. Then she stays
here to heal herself.
She's dead.
There's nothing to heal.
Find Clervals now!
-She is not our problem.
-[door closes]
No!
I do not know what
you see, but I can feel
that you are both
scared as you were
when her betrothed came to this
house not a short time ago.
This is your atonement.
This is how you are
to set things right.
Mother would be
ashamed of you right now.
You know that?
She taught us all
our lives to be better.
BRIDE:
Clervals must die!
She cannot stay
and she cannot leave.
What do you want us to do?
BRIDE:
Clervals must die!
You are right about Mr. Clancy.
He knows all.
He is probably the one to seek.
If the Clervals are
killing people
and burning down churches,
then maybe they have something
to do with the people in town
going missing,
including Mother.
Offer up your sword for trade.
It should be plenty to get
the information you need.
But I...
Sheathe another
blade in your belt.
BRIDE:
Clervals must die!
I think she is going with you.
-Let's go.
-Clervals must die!
I loved Henry like a brother.
I knew what was best for him.
[groans]
His plan, it cannot...
cannot work.
Wake up.
Wake up!
Just because you didn't
share the same vision as Henry
doesn't mean
that it would not work.
You of all people
should understand
that nothing
is truly impossible.
No!
No, it cannot be done,
because to bring such evil
back into the world...
unthinkable.
It is not science.
It is war.
Do not wish war upon the people
that nearly killed you!
Nearly killed your creations!
They wish an end
to your science!
To your art!
Stop engaging him!
Just ask him your
questions before
you lose him
completely, you fool!
Do not call me a fool!
Frankenstein!
Tell us where
the red journal is.
I'll never... I'll never say.
-This is useless!
-You wasted time!
It was the tonic!
It was a terrible idea!
Harris, look what you've done!
No matter.
We need the powders.
The powders.
Where's Mr. Clancy?
Where is that swine?
Harris.
You go to that horrible
bloody market,
and you find what is going
on with that Mr. Clancy!
We will gather
our supplies,
and if this Dr. Frankenstein
won't divulge his secrets,
then we will
simply plumb them
from his laboratory
at Frankenstein Castle.
Now go!
Your friend.
She looks a little
under the weather.
She had some bad cheese
she bought from your store.
How unfortunate.
How can I help you?
What do you think, Mr. Clancy?
Information.
Well, that I have plenty of.
But it will not be cheap.
You know what it means.
You know I'm capable.
I can trade you my
skills for what we seek.
Skills?
Young De Lacey,
you have no skills.
Clervals!
It talks.
Do you know them or not?
Clervals, Cler...
Oh, you must be thinking of...
Dr. Henry Clerval.
The late scientist,
the noted scientist.
He was Victor Frankenstein's
departed partner.
See, I told you
Dr. Frankenstein was involved.
Oh, very involved.
What you see right here
is his greatest experiment.
Talking corpse.
Frankenstein... dead.
Dead?
Oh, condolences.
Not even I knew that.
By who? You?
Her.
The Clervals.
Oh.
You must be speaking of
Dr. Henry's gruesome cousins.
Four of them. They came to town
about four months or so ago,
but kept it quiet.
Mr. Clancy!
You never came with the powder--
Clerval!
-Is that him?
-Get away from me, you freak!
Is that a Clerval?
Oh, I should have cleaved
your head from its torso!
Was the the one
at the church?
Did he harm you?
[screams]
He can lead us
to the other Clervals!
I will save you,
but you must promise
to lead me to
the other Clervals.
Fine.
But you must help me
stop this demon.
Don't kill him! Wait!
Kill Clervals!
Look out!
Foul creature!
-Let him go!
-He must die!
No, no, no. He can lead us
to the other Clervals.
Do you understand?
Let's make haste
before he gets too far.
You stay back and
find out why that man
was coming
here in the first place.
But...
Damned woman!
Destroyed my bloody store!
Stronger men have
tried to kill me, son.
I'm not your son.
Did you ever find out what
happened to your mother?
How do you know about my mother?
What did that man want of you?
Why was he here?
Well, same thing
everybody wants, really.
Power.
Clervals, well,
they want powder and medicines.
Enough to feed an army.
You were supplying
that for them.
For what purpose?
It's a gruesome family business.
Reanimation?
I would imagine so, but
I don't ask many questions.
Perhaps... Perhaps that's par
of me charm.
Are they reanimating the
dead like their cousin did?
Like Dr. Frankenstein?
Well, I'm no genius, but...
you seem to have befriended
one of their experiments.
Oh!
Go back to hell, demon!
Harris and Mr. Clancy
should really be back by now.
That Clancy bastard!
He's clearly betrayed us!
I'll slit his throat
myself
if he doesn't come back
with our supplies.
We have a schedule
that has to be kept,
before the
Blood Moon rises.
And you sent a
boy after this man.
Wait, are you
sending Louise now?
I want to go, John.
-Quiet!
-I want to go!
Mary, you will help me load
Dr. Frankenstein
into the carriage.
Then we will take
him to his laboratory.
Louise, you will go and get
the powders from Mr. Clancy.
Then meet us at the castle.
Why there?
Because I wouldn't put it
past Dr. Frankenstein
to hide the red journal there,
close to the machine.
But if there are no journals,
at least we'll
have his laboratory.
And we'll figure
it out from there.
Now go.
Hup...
Yes, now, if you come upon
Harris on your travels,
remind him that only the
strong will become a commander.
Like me.
[scoffs]
Go!
Before the bride killed
that Clerval boy,
he dropped this list.
Are these supplies to
bring back the dead?
Is that what they're planning?
Can I see it?
When they burnt down the church,
they brought
Dr. Frankenstein here to me.
Father!
Yeah, in your eyes, yeah.
Was he alive?
Well, he wasn't in a great way,
but yeah, yeah, he was alive.
-Alive?
-Alive.
What do they want
with the doctor?
Immortality!
No!
You!
We burned you in the church!
We cannot kill her.
She is a Clerval.
They are trying to
reanimate the dead.
We must know if they
know anything about Mother.
You killed our brother,
didn't you?
He attacked her,
like you're doing now.
Perhaps, if you just
take a breath...
You're a monster!
I won't...
[screaming]
Stop! You've got to stop!
She can tell you where
Dr. Frankenstein is!
Stop, please!
I can't move!
My arms, they're frozen!
She will help us now.
[whimpering]
[screaming]
Come on.
Please tell her to stop!
This is too brutal for me.
I've got to go back inside.
She's a monster.
Oh, I can't feel my legs.
Oh, dear sir.
Please listen.
We... we never never meant to
kill her or her monster lover.
We only wanted Dr. Frankenstein.
[screaming]
What did you want
with Dr. Frankenstein?
He killed our cousin,
Dr. Henry Clerval,
and stole his life's work.
We only wanted what
was rightfully ours.
So you are after his research.
To continue
reanimating the dead.
No.
We loved our cousin dearly.
We wanted Dr. Frankenstein
to bring him back from the dead.
Surely you can understand that.
[groaning]
[screaming]
Come on, we have to go.
What?
I fear this is too much for us,
younger brother.
This might just be their fight.
Not with mother still out there.
This is our fight still, too.
Come on.
Is Louise still not back?
I told you I should have gone.
What is that?
These are supplies
for the resurrection.
Is he all bound up?
Of course.
I didn't want to make
it too comfortable.
I should go and look for her.
And you know if I come into
any trouble, I can handle it.
[panting]
Ah, Mr. Clancy.
It's about time that
you showed up.
I have another job for you.
I have some bad news,
Mr. Clerval.
Agatha?
Madam Clerval is dead.
Did you find them?
Or did they find you?
Two of the Clervals came
to the slaughter market
under Mr. Clancy's keep.
[door opens]
You were right.
We cannot continue
down this path.
I mean, she is a vile monster.
Take a pause, okay?
She knows not what she's doing.
She was torturing her!
Of course she knows!
She is driven by revenge.
And that is very powerful.
It's Dr. Frankenstein,
not the Clervals.
Why? What did she say?
They were here for
their cousin's funeral
and they were
staying at his manor.
That's when they
found his journal.
It turns out Dr. Clerval was
suspicious of Dr. Frankenstein.
He thought he was going
mad of jealousy of some sort.
Dr. Henry Clerval's manor?
The point is, they were after
Dr. Frankenstein
and not these two.
Remember, child,
the devil only knows lies.
You think she was lying
with her dying breath?
You are young and you are naive.
Of course she was lying.
[gasping]
You were right
about the constable.
We should start there.
No, Papa was right.
They're tainted.
They won't believe us or her.
She is the problem.
She, not the Clervals.
Frankenstein is alive.
The constable will believe us.
We will make him.
If Dr. Frankenstein is alive,
can he put your betrothed
back together?
This is madness.
She doesn't know what
she's talking about.
Dr. Frankenstein
is a part of all this.
And the Clervals, they
were trying to stop him.
Madame Clerval said as much.
No. Doctor is good.
Doctor will help.
What is she doing?
She's cradling her
dead lover's head.
I'm going to be sick.
Doctor will help.
She believes that if we
can find Dr. Frankenstein,
he can put her
betrothed back together.
Like some fairytale
Humpty Dumpty.
This is much too macabre.
Why not?
I think he can
mend a broken heart.
Betrothed.
Frankenstein!
She broke Louisa's back
and severed her spine!
-This is because of you, John.
-Mary!
This is his fault.
This is his fault that our
brother and sister are dead.
Oh, we should slice him up
like we did the others.
What?
I kept my end of the bargain.
I delivered the powders
and the supplies.
Mr. Clerval, please.
How is it my fault?
If you had been here on time,
they wouldn't have had
to fetch you.
I was kidnapped like they were.
I was no match for that demon.
And yet she let you live.
Well, I didn't kill her
monstrous lover now, did I?
Enough, Mary.
It's fine.
It's fine?
Fine?
John, she tortured them!
More bodies for
the immortal army.
Think about it.
It'll just be us as commanders.
But Louise and Harris,
they will live again once we
find the missing red journal.
At Frankenstein's
laboratory, we'll make it so.
I think, I think I should,
I should warn you
that while
that creature is still active,
we are all in danger.
We?
She is driven by a
primal sense of revenge.
Huh!
Are you suggesting that that
thing is capable of emotion?
Of love?
She's a monster.
She's not capable of
anything other than death.
Be that as it may,
she has her sights
set on the two of you.
Well...
Then she'll need a distraction.
[chuckling]
Kill Clervals.
Don't go too far ahead.
Kill Clervals!
How are we going to extract
Dr. Frankenstein
from the Clervals?
Yeah, I was thinking
the same thing.
Mr. Clancy said that there
were only four cousins.
Which leaves only two remaining.
Those odds are better.
I suppose we should
just let her off her leash.
Stop.
She's not a feral animal.
She's not human either.
Well, she's capable of love.
Which makes her
more human than some.
And she's not ours to control.
Let's just give her
to Dr. Frankenstein
and hopefully without carnage.
Clervals!
There goes our
element of surprise.
Clervals!
Now what?
Let us search the grounds.
Oh, you again.
I should say the same.
Shall we go another round?
Or shall we cut to the chase
and you just tell us
where the Clervals are?
Oh, that's easy, isn't it?
It's a great pleasure.
I tell you,
they have left to go home.
They've left?
Yes, we're finally rid of those
evil, nasty, unethical people.
Yeah, you should know.
They have left to go
home for the docks.
They know
they're no match for her.
And Dr. Frankenstein?
Oh, Dr. Frankenstein.
Well, he's gone with them.
Yeah, he's over at the docks.
We're finally rid of this
whole Frankenstein chapter.
[screams]
Tell her!
Get her off! Get her off me!
Tell her the Clervals
are gone, please!
Tell her! Tell her!
-Frankenstein!
-Yes, Frankenstein, your father.
He's at the docks.
They're going home.
They're there now.
Go! Hurry! Hurry!
How do we know
you're telling the truth?
Look, if I'm not telling
the truth, that thing
is going to come back
and kill me now, isn't she?
Dr. Frankenstein
is at the docks.
-Yes, hurry!
-Docks!
Ships.
If we hurry, we might
be able to catch him.
Hurry! Come on, before
it gets too dark.
We don't know what
we're walking into.
You know, I always
meant to ask you.
When the mob came to
attack the monster,
you know, her lover,
why didn't you participate?
I always thought you hesitated.
That's funny.
I never knew why
you participated.
Well, I thought
he was dangerous.
He was the victim of a madman
who turned him back to life.
And her?
I don't know if we
should envy her passion
or we should be fearful
of this new world.
Either way, she's a victim, too.
And she deserves our compassion.
Father!
Father...
Run! It's an ambush!
It's an ambush!
[grunts]
Mary! Get back, quick!
[Bride screams]
[screaming]
[screams]
Agatha!
I'm coming!
Where is Dr. Frankenstein?
Felix?
Dead.
Find Frankenstein.
Hurt?
Yes...
Hurt?
Hurt.
You go.
Find your papa.
Take you home.
Thank you.
Mary.
Mary, how are you doing?
John, am I dead?
No. Not yet.
Where's... where's the doctor?
No. No!
You let them get away!
I didn't let him do anything.
The goddamn doctor's escaped.
Look at you, you're
a bloody mess.
Clean yourself up.
I was mauled by that creature!
[John grunts]
John, what are you doing?
What does it look
like I'm doing?
Adding another soldier
to the army of the undead.
Come on.
Let's go.
We don't have Dr. Frankenstein.
I'm the doctor now.
We need to search
for the missing journal
at Frankenstein's laboratory.
Come on.
They'll be waiting for us.
Scared? You?
No.
No, I'm not scared of anything.
This is our last chance
to resurrect Henry.
And then the doctor, John.
After we resurrect Henry
and the immortal army, he dies.
And her.
Once Henry's back,
it'll make no difference.
Come on, let's go.
[grunting]
Papa.
Agatha?
[crying]
What happened?
It's Felix.
They stabbed him.
They killed him.
Shh, shh, shh.
They were throwing
daggers at both of us,
and then
they got behind him.
[sobbing]
[grunting]
What a magnificent laboratory.
Yes. Clancy has been busy.
Once we bring in our dear
cousin Henry's modifications,
we'll have
everything we need here.
Now, we'd start by
finding that journal.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
[grunts]
Weakness.
I'm in pain, John.
[grunting]
Come on.
Put him against the wall.
Here he is.
Your cousin.
The illustrious
Dr. Henry Clerval.
Magnificent.
I got something
that can fix that.
Leave it.
I'm starting to like it.
Okay.
Well, you're both back.
So, assuming we're rid of the
bride and the wedding party?
That will be all, Mr. Clancy.
But what about the doctor?
Dr. Frankenstein?
Don't you have
another errand to get to?
Um... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've got more bodies to collect.
I put most of them
in the deep freeze.
But, alas, I do
have one more trip.
So, leave.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I want to kill him so bad.
You'll get your chance.
You mean when I become immortal?
When we become immortal.
But first, we need
to find the journals.
What happens if we
can't find the journal?
And Dr. Frankenstein
won't help us?
Then we'll do it ourselves.
We will do the best we can.
But first, we need to reanimate
our dear cousin, Henry.
And then he will
take care of the rest.
Now start searching
for that journal.
I let him down.
You couldn't control his fate.
Just as I couldn't
control my eyesight.
I should have known
it was an ambush.
It's by the grace
of the divine
that I am not burying two
children this day.
What if... what if
we find Frankenstein?
No. I'm sorry, child. No.
You didn't even listen to
what I was going to say.
You want to reanimate Felix?
No.
We are not gods.
We are fools to pretend to be.
This life is precious.
This life.
If you could cure blindness,
wouldn't you?
Child, you act as if
blindness is a curse.
The only curse is the
curse of a blackened soul.
Those committing evil
will never be happy.
Never.
They will never know
friendship or love.
And without that...
[door opens]
My name is Victor--
Frankenstein.
-My bride.
-Father!
My beloved...
Thank you for looking after her.
And I'm sorry for the loss
of the man at the docks.
My son.
Oh.
He was very brave.
The Clervals, they're
desperate people.
Desperate? For what?
Power. Greed.
Everything they do not possess.
That type of greed
can seem unstoppable.
Sorry, I'm rambling.
I followed you and...
I'm here to collect
this lovely creature.
Where are you going?
That's none of your concern.
Well, my brother sacrificed
his life, so yes, it is.
Apologies for my discourtesy.
It was for your own welfare.
We are leaving before
the Clervals
get what they're looking for.
Before it becomes impossible
to get off this island.
You're going to let them win?
Well, I doubt that
John Clerval has
the capacity to
bring back the dead.
But luck, by definition,
has outwitted us all at times.
No! Can't go.
I am sorry, my dear.
But once we leave, there
will be no more reanimation.
By now, the Clervals are
probably at my lab as we speak.
They only have until tonight
to bring back their coven.
And they will fail.
Enraged, they will
burn down my castle.
And there will be nothing left.
And no way to bring
back your betrothed.
They were married?
Married?
Not in this life.
Was it an accident
that took them?
They had plans,
but he was murdered
before their blessed day.
Her husband, this woman,
was so stricken with grief
that she put herself
into an early grave.
Once he gained capacity
for speech,
all he could ask for was for me
to bring back his one true love.
I thought I was done with this.
But if I were to play God,
is love not the most
compelling reason to do so?
Love is not possession, Doctor.
It's surrender.
If you truly love them, you
would want their souls at peace.
Not chained here
by your science.
You would condemn her twice?
Once in life, once in death.
All because you
cannot bear to lose her?
Sometimes the holiest
act of love
is to let what we love rest.
Sometimes, sir, it is no
longer our decision to make.
I'll go.
No, even if you do beat them,
you cannot bring back her lover.
Then come with me.
You said it was no
longer our decision to make,
but you have one more.
She called you her father.
Let me tell you, sir,
from one papa to another,
she is expecting nothing more
than the very best in you.
To protect the very best in her.
I will watch her.
Have you found the journals yet?
No, but...
Look what I have found.
This must be where we input
the electrical equation
to power it up.
You're wasting time.
No, this is the power source
that cousin Henry talked about.
In place of any lightning storm.
Just stop wasting time.
And find the journals.
Useless.
No, you cannot go that way.
These roads are watched.
That will not end well for you.
-We will take the other road.
-Quicker!
It's a little scenic,
but it's not far.
Please don't kill me.
You.
You betrayed us at the docks.
With apologies.
They killed Felix.
Where did they take his body?
Those fools have
taken many bodies.
Sorry. Sorry.
After the Clervals resurrect
their cousin Henry,
they have a sinister plan
involving all the corpses
from the town's graveyard.
Please!
[screams]
He was the worst
kind of opportunist.
Why was he cutting those bodies?
Are they making another monster?
-My dear.
-A really big monster?
Much worse.
Stop.
I need to know what's worse.
My dear, he was creating
an army of the undead
with him as the commander.
How?
He figured that
under a Blood Moon,
the atmosphere was
changed somehow.
That if he was reanimated
under those conditions,
that he could control the dead.
But he wasn't dead.
No, I killed him.
I watched him kill himself
with the understanding
that I would be here tonight.
Reanimating him.
Now you know why
I didn't want to be here.
Maybe it's in here.
You are worthless!
Well, you look for it then.
Mary, you had one job to do.
Maybe Dr. Frankenstein
never committed
his process to the page.
I've already searched there.
It's a waste of time.
Stop wasting time!
The missing journal.
Let's begin.
[chuckles]
Agatha, the Bride and I,
we shall stop this madness.
You stay here.
No, but please.
I intend to return you
to your father unscathed.
-Now give me the sword.
-Please.
Use your dagger
if they get too close.
-Please.
-I will look after it.
I understand the magnitude
of what I'm asking here.
But if anyone is making
it out alive, it is you.
-Please.
-Please.
Please.
Be safe.
Are you ready?
He always was
my favorite cousin.
Hold, my bride.
I see you found my journals.
They were scribble.
But I made sense of them.
Now we have the equation
to start the machine.
My beloved.
Your lover is all in there.
Just cut into pieces.
Tell your beast that if
she makes any moves on us,
we will kill you.
My beloved.
Do you understand, beast?
He will die.
I'll lead her away.
[screaming]
This rod has enough electricity
to evaporate you into oblivion!
He's getting away!
No. The body!
We have to stop it
from reanimating!
We have to stop the machine.
Here.
It's harmless.
[screaming]
I just need a few moments.
This isn't safe.
We do not know where they are.
Hurry!
Here.
I am almost done.
[screaming]
Ah!
Frankenstein!
[grunts]
John!
John, she's coming!
[screams]
[panting]
Good riddance.
We should not have killed
Dr. Frankenstein.
What if we run into
problems with his machine?
We have no choice.
The Blood Moon
is almost at its apex.
Let's start up
this blasted machine.
It's time to welcome
back Cousin Henry.
[machine powering up]
Well?
This was a one-shot deal.
If we've mucked this up...
Come on, Cousin Henry.
Come on!
[chuckles]
Yes. Yes. Yes...
[gasping]
He's alive!
Alive!
Jesus, Mary, and Joesph!
Yes...
You're back, Cousin.
You're back.
Do you recognize us?
It's me.
Your cousin John.
And Mary.
I'm alive.
I'm alive!
Cousin...
Everything listed in
your journal is here.
We brought everything exactly
to your specifications.
We brought you back
under the Blood Moon.
Oh, Victor.
You disappoint me.
You two did what he could not.
Thank you.
We're ready to be
your commanders.
Then where is my army?
Here, Cousin.
Oh...
We have much, much work to do.
Grab him.
Get him on there.
We'll bring him
back to life first.
No, no, no, Cousin.
Cousin, no.
Not him.
He's the only one that
knows how the machine works.
John!
Cousin Henry!
You have to die first if
you want to be immortal.
[cackles]
No, no, I'm not ready. Please.
Please!
Very well.
Prepare the doctor.
Ready the generator, Mary.
Come.
But I... I don't know how...
If you want to stay alive,
you're going to have to be
a little more useful than that.
So teach me then!
What are you doing?
Currently changing
the neural transmissions
so that my army only
follows my command.
Yes, yes.
Not... not us though, right?
Not John and I.
We're meant to be commanders.
We're meant to control your
militia, not be controlled.
That was our promise!
Yes, well... we all made
many promises, didn't we?
There. Done.
[clatter]
Who is that?
She and her brother Felix were
trying to help Dr. Frankenstein.
Well, she'll be under
my control soon enough.
[gasps]
Wonderful, wonderful.
Dr. Frankenstein.
Hello.
Now, won't you be a dear
and stand up there for me?
Very good.
Very good.
Now, perhaps you
could get Mary's corpse
and place it
on the table for me?
Wonderful.
Wonderful, Victor.
Thank you.
Now, ready the patient.
We will revive her.
Up you get, Mary.
Very good. Very good.
Now, John too.
Very good. Very good.
Good. Well done.
Let's add another soldier
to my undead army.
Marvelous.
Wonderful.
All right.
John, Mary, collect more bodies
from the village cemetery.
Victor, take the girl into
the resurrection chamber.
Marvelous.
Go, now. go!
Oh... I remember you.
Yes.
This was the monster's lover.
Yes, we reanimated
her just before my death.
Do you remember her, Victor?
Oh, okay. Well, run along and
then put her in the chamber too.
[clattering]
[panting]
Yes, yes.
Victor, we're running
out of serum.
Hand me the last of it.
Quickly.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
You know, I could really get
used to this obedience of yours.
Could you stand there, please?
Thank you.
Wonderful. Wonderful.
[groans]
[growling]
We've done it.
Victor....
We're ready to begin.
My army is ready.
Thank you for all your
help, wonderful man.
Now...
Wake up!
Wake up, my children!
You, you are the lucky few to
be brought back from the dead.
You, who are the lucky few, have
a chance to right your wrongs.
To seek revenge on those
who said they loved you
while you were alive,
but spat on your
grave in your passing.
[growling]
We are here to
reclaim this world.
To seek retribution.
To find revenge and
murder all those
who mocked
us in our lives!
All those who vilified us!
We will not be ignored!
Now go into the village.
Find all those that wronged you
and make them pay.
Kill them all!
Go! Go!
Isn't it beautiful, Victor?
Why do I hear a heartbeat?
What are you doing?
Look at him.
Look at your beloved.
This is who you're fighting
for. Not Dr. Clerval.
Don't listen to her.
Listen to me!
Don't give in. Fight harder.
Fight for your beloved.
John, John!
Kill them both, now!
Quickly!
Stop her.
[groaning]
[snarling]
Felix?
Felix!
[shouts]
Don't you touch him!
Don't you touch him!
[shouting]
Splendid!
Fill the chamber for
the next batch of soldiers.
Everything is going
exactly to plan.
Everything is going to work.
[muttering]
It's going to work.
The chamber is full.
Leave the rest of them
on the floor outside.
More... corpses.
BRIDE:
Agatha.
Agatha, wake up.
The village.
They had Felix's body.
Where did you go?
Saw Clervals...
Take you.
I followed back here.
Bride. You came back.
I have you!
No, that's not your
father anymore.
It's me. It's me.
Bring back beloved!
Dr. Frankenstein,
how are you alive?
This day...
It was inevitable.
So I created an antidote
in case they tried to turn me.
The Clervals
thought it was a tonic.
Do you know how to sew?
[growling]
[cackling]
Arise!
Join my army of the undead!
[groaning]
[clanging, growling]
Keep making all that noise.
[door opens]
Elizabeth?
[snarling]
It looks as though I've got all
the torches and pitchforks now.
Yes...
How is this going to work?
How is it going
to attach itself?
Just keep sewing.
I'll get the serum.
[groaning]
Oh, I think it's working.
I think it's working.
It's working.
Felix.
Whoever you think that is,
it's not him.
Protect his body, please.
Where's the antidote?
There is no more antidote.
It's in my blood.
-Find some.
-There is no more.
Protect the body.
The machine.
No. Wait.
Wait! That's too much current!
[screaming]
Dr. Frankenstein, was that...
The serum must have reacted
with the current.
Good God, what have I done?
[groaning]
Wait!
Where did he go?
The village.
He's still under
Dr. Clerval's control.
It'll be a massacre.
What about his bride?
I don't know how to save her.
Is she under his control?
I don't know.
Wait.
I cannot let you go out there.
They will sense you are alive
and they will kill
you on the spot.
This will give you
temporary immunity.
Are you killing me?
[panting]
[groaning]
Simply marvelous.
Beloved!
Hello, my old friend.
I'm so happy to see you again.
You know, I think
you may need to kill
a whole bunch of people
that wanted you dead.
Off you go.
Yes, that's it.
[screaming]
Just marvelous.
[growls]
Ah!
No!
Kill her!
Kill your bride!
[growls]
[groaning]
What is this?
You killed my brother!
Stop!
On your knees, girl!
What are you doing?
Do you think you can control me?
You can't control me.
I control you.
I control everyone here.
And soon, I will control.
You don't control me.
Wretched girl.
You can't hurt me.
I am immortal!
I am a god!
Now kill her.
All of you, kill her!
[growling]
[screams]
BRIDE:
Kill Clervals!
No, wait, no, wait.
Please, please, no.
No! No! No!
[screams]
Honey?
Welcome home, my love.
[groaning]
Beloved!
[moans]
My beloved!
[grunting]
Dr. Frankenstein,
is she...
She's... gone.
Oh, my dear young man.
Your bride...
She made it.
She survived.
Dr. Frankenstein, how?
The energy burned out and
the serum finally stabilized.
She's...
Beautiful.
What is true love?
As a scientist, I thought
it was just an equation.
A problem to be solved.
But there is no math
when it comes to the heart.
And these two
beautiful people
are made with the
greatest hearts of all.
Do you, sir, take this woman...
To be thy wedded wife?
I...
Do.
And do you...
...take this man...
to be thy wedded husband?
I do, my beloved.