Bride of Frankenstein (1935) not only lives up to the original Frankenstein (1931), but in some ways these movies are very similar. The director of both films, James Whale, would later admit that it was the only story that "had to be told." After seeing the first one, everyone wanted a sequel. Most of the main cast members of the original Frankenstein movie reprise their roles in Bride of Frankenstein including Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, the irreplaceable Boris Karloff as the monster, and Dwight Frye as his bent-over assistant Fritz. It appeared at the end of the 1931 Frankenstein that the monster had perished in a burning windmill after being chased by a lynch mob. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the windmill was built over a pond and the monster escapes the fire, but not before killing a couple of people in the process. Dr. Frankenstein regrets his foolish attempts to play God in the first movie, even though in the Bride of Frankenstein he still speaks with a mad enthusiasm about the dreams he had pursued so dangerously. In the first movie, the monster is locked in a room and begins pounding on the door to try and escape. In the sequel, it seems like the same sort of thing happens when he is detained by the police, put in jail, and later escapes. Frankenstein's monster was a very interesting character in the first movie, and in the second movie we finally get to see the humanity of the character emerge. In both movies, when he would try to seek friendship, he would only be met with fear, screams, or cruelty. In Frankenstein, there was one scene where the monster interacted with a little girl named Maria. They tossed flowers into a pond to watch them float. When the monster ran out of flowers, he tossed the girl into the pond accidentally drowning her. Karloff did a fantastic job of playing out the monster's emotions and reactions as he runs away from the lake bewildered and confused by what happened to the little girl....