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“1981 anime retells Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: scientist creates monster, flees, but murders suggest his horror lives on.”
The Monster Of Frankenstein
恐怖伝説 怪奇！フランケンシュタイン
5.69
12,259 rank · 2,350 viewers · 2 favorites
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Horror
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
1981 anime retells Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: scientist creates monster, flees, but murders suggest his horror lives on.
Airing on TV Asahi in 1981, with a running time of 111 minutes, Frankenstein is a reasonably standard retelling of the classic book by Mary Shelley. In a foreboding castle scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein performs a hideous experiment which he hopes will bring the dead back to life. With the help of his assistant he is successful in reanimating a man recreated from parts gathered from corpses but the creature is unpredictable and horrifying. The doctor flees back to his home in Switzerland leaving his assistant in charge of destroying the monster. But Dr. Frankenstein soon finds that he cannot hide from his shameful secret forever as mysterious murders are committed around him forcing him to question if his creation really is dead and gone...
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Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
6.1
/10
What 9 viewers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 5
σ 1.20
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.20 · some divergence
The polarity gap
2.7 pts
Recommenders 7.7 · others 5.0
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Score over time
↑ 1.11
Running avg · Nov 2015 → Apr 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Overall an 8. seen via eng dub note: you may see a time issue. you may be watching the 88 minute version not the longer one listed here. Some say the 88 version is incomplete because of this but...”
- 8 “this movie i feel is a bit over looked i watched the subbed version base on other reviews the different dubbed versions might have lower quality if comparing it to the original american frankstein...”
- 7 “I watched Kyoufu Kaiki! Frankenstein (also known as Monster of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Legend of Terror). An Anime movie from 1981 based on Frankenstein. I watched the Dub that was made in...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 44%
Long · 22%
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A Tv special Production
Toei Animation.- Format 1 × 89′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 29m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1981 – ongoing
- Source Tv special media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-4833 catalog