The Ghost of Frankenstein is a 1942 American Universal horror thriller film directed by the late Erle C. Kenton, produced by the late George Waggner, and starring by the late Cedric Hardwicke, the late Lon Chaney Jr., the late Bela Lugosi, the late Ralph Bellamy, the late Lionet Atwill, and the late Evelyn Ankers. It is fourth film in the Universal Pictures franchise Frankenstein, a sequel to Son of Frankenstein and followed by Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
When Ygor (Bela Lugosi) takes the Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke) to take him into care, the doctor decides to replace the creature's evil brain with a normal brain.
Victims[]
- Joseph - Punched in the chest and knocked down a ladder by The Monster.
- Karl - Punched in the neck and knocked off a wall by The Monster.
- Dr. Kettering - Killed by The Monster off-screen, body shown.
- Ygor - Brain removed by Dr. Bohmer off-screen after being crushed by The Monster with an iron door. (Revived in The Monster's body)
- Frankenstein's Monster/The Monster - Brain removed by Dr. Frankenstein off-screen to replace it with Kettering's brain (which is actually implanted Ygor's brain). (Mysteriously reanimated in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man")
- Dr. Theodore Bohmer - Electrocuted to death after being thrown into an electric generator by Ygor-Monster.
- Ygor-Monster - Burned to death in a fire started by himself after going blind due to Dr. Bohmer's transplant.
- Dr. Ludwig Von Frankenstein - Burned to death in a fire started by Ygor-Monster.
- Seven Unnamed Villagers - Burned to death in a fire started by Ygor-Monster after being gassed by Dr. Bohmer on the his orders.
Deaths[]
- Total - 15
- 13 Humans
- All Men
- 2 Monsters
- All Men
- 13 Humans
Kill Counts[]
- Ygor/Ygor-Monster - 9 (Deceased)
- Dr. Theodore Bohmer - 9 (Deceased)
- Frankenstein's Monster/The Monster - 4 (Deceased)
- Dr. Ludwig Von Frankenstein - 1 (Deceased)
