ADAPED FROM A STORY OLDER THAN BRAM STOKERS DRACULA THIS STRAYS QUITE A BIT FROM MARY SHELLYS BOOK.....THAT BEING SAID THIS MOVIE WAS A HORROR POWERHOUSE IN ITS TIME....IT OUTPACED DRACULA AND MOST OF THE OTHER UNIVERSAL MOVIE MONSTERS IN NUMBERS OF ADAPTATIONS. STORY WISE THIS ONE IS MORE ABOUT CREATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN. IT SETS ITS SELF APART THE ACTING IS MUCH BETTER THAN THAT OF DRACULA. I LOVE KARLOFS CREATCHER BUT THEMATICLY I THINK HE WOULD HAVE MADE A BETTER DR FRANKENSTEIN WITH THAT SUPER ICONIC VOICE OF HIS.