Frankenstein 1970 Articles

"With a few exceptions," wrote Andrew Sarris in You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, "The Bride of Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the horror film as a serious genre.  The creeping disease of facetiousness crippled the genre even more distressingly than it had the gangster film.  The dilution of creativity proceeded apace in both genres with anachronistic wise-cracking, farcical reactions, low-brow skepticism, and 'darky' caricatures.  [...]