I think "what a time to be dead" also had a big spike around then.

Come Live With Me by Heaven 17 is the worst offender.

Really you need Victor to be played by a gaunt, wild-haired twenty-something, to give a sense that he is obsessive and haunted and ambition-crazed. Not some buffed guy whose emotional range is two types of frown.

Well, that was beautifully designed, shot and lit - and you HAVE to see it in b/w - but otherwise, it's just the same story as all the other versions. Also I wasn't hugely impressed by the lead guy, but maybe it was a directorial choice to make Victor so dull and emotionless.

It is generally the case that film adaptations of 19th novels only do the first half, the half with the plot in it.

No second laboratory or lady monster Francescastein.

Oh no, this is telescoping events. No hiking holiday or trip to Orkney.

That said, we haven't had the bit where he saves the girl from drowning (or drowns her, in some films).

I think this film might actually be doing the 100 pages of the novel that most adaptations skip.

Dark widescreen and sexy.

Yeah he had three lines and a bad wig.

How can he be reading Shelley? Nuts!

Ooh, it's DOCTOR WHO.

Water Company: You finish that new design for a water treatment tower?
Architect: Sure did boss, real fuckin gothic just like you asked.
Water Company: what

Yes, everything looks like Batman.

Oh my goodness that is MUCH better. This was a film made to be watched in monochrome.