List of films featuring Frankenstein's monster

• 1823: Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin at the English Opera House.[18]
• 1826: Henry M. Milner's adaptation, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein opened on 3 July at the Royal Coburg Theatre, London.[19]
• 1887: Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim was a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).[20]
• 1972: A comedic stage adaptation, Frankenstein's Monster, was written by Sally Netzel and produced by the Dallas Theatre Centre.[21]
• 1981: A Broadway adaptation by Victor Gialanella played for one performance (after 29 previews) and was considered the most expensive flop ever produced to that date.[22]
• 2006: Frankenstein - A New Musical, composed by Mark Baron, book by Jeffrey Jackson, and based on an adaptation by Gary P. Cohen.[23]
• 2007: Frankenstein, an award-winning musical stage adaptation by Jonathan Christenson with set, lighting, and costume design by Bretta Gerecke for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.[24]
• 2011: the National Theatre, London presented a stage version of Frankenstein, which ran until 2 May 2011. The play was written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature.[1] The National Theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide on 17 March.
• 2015: Frankenstein, a modern-day adaptation written and directed by Bernard Rose.[25]
• 2015: Victor Frankenstein is an American film directed by Paul McGuigan.[26]
• 2016: Frankenstein, a full-length ballet production by Liam Scarlett.[27]

• 1968: An 80-minute episode of Mystery and Imagination, a British television anthology series of Gothic fiction and classic horror, adapted Frankenstein, starring Ian Holm in dual roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation, named in the credits as "the Being." The supporting cast includes Richard Vernon, Neil Stacy, Sarah Badel, Meg Wynn Owen, Morag Hood, and Ron Pember. This is a relatively faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, retaining the creature's intelligence, articulacy, and vengeful nature, although the North Pole wraparound sequences are excluded and the presence of Frankenstein's assistant "Fritz" owes more to the 1931 Universal film version. Ian Holm later played Victor's father in the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
• 1973: The two-part TV film Frankenstein: The True Story appeared on NBC. The movie starred Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, and Jane Seymour.[28]
• 1984: The flop Broadway production yielded a TV film starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, and John Gielgud.[29]
• 1992: Frankenstein became a Turner Network Television film directed by David Wickes, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. John Mills played the blind man.[30]
• 2004: Frankenstein, a two-episode miniseries starring Alec Newman, with Luke Goss and Donald Sutherland.[31]
• 2011: In March, BBC3 broadcast Colin Teague's live production from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, billed as Frankenstein's Wedding, Live in Leeds.[32]
• 2014: Penny Dreadful is a horror TV series that airs on Showtime, that features Victor Frankenstein as well as his Creature.[33]
• 2016: Frankenstein, a full-length ballet production by Liam Scarlett was also shown live on TV worldwide.[34]

• 2012: An interactive ebook app created by Inkle and Profile Books that retells the story with added interactive elements.[35]
• The Creature is a recurring boss in Konami's Castlevania series.

Loose adaptations

• 1967: I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical) are a pair of musical comedies written by Bobby Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The casts of both feature several classic horror characters including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster.[36]
• 1971: Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by Edward di Lorenzo. The story begins when Dr. Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created; his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall then continue with his experiments.[37]
• 1973: The Rocky Horror Show, is a British horror comedy stage musical written by Richard O'Brian in which Dr. Frank N. Furter has created a creature (Rocky), to satisfy his (pro)creative drives. The plot elements are similar to I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night.[38]
• 1973: Flesh for Frankenstein. Usually, Frankenstein is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far, but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding.[39]
• 1974: Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks, this sequel-spoof has been listed[40] as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made, even prompting an American film preservation program to include it on its listings. It reuses many props from James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and is shot in black-and-white with 1930s-style credits. Gene Wilder portrayed the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein (who insists on pronouncing it "Fronkenschteen"), with Peter Boyle as the Monster.
• 1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock stage musical, The Rocky Horror Show (1973), written by Richard O'Brien.[38]
• 1984: Frankenweenie is a parody short film directed by Tim Burton, starring Barrett Oliver, Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern.[41]
• 1985: The Bride starring Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous Monster.[42]
• 1986: Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, is the story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson.[43]
• 1988: Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a manga adaptation of Shelley's novel by Junji Ito.[44]
• 1989: Frankenstein the Panto. A pantomime script by David Swan, combining elements of Frankenstein, Dracula, and traditional British pantomime.[45]
• 1990: Frankenstein Unbound.[46] Combines a time-travel story with the story of Mary Shelley's novel. Scientist Joe Buchanan accidentally creates a time-rift which takes him back to the events of the novel. Filmed as a low-budget independent film by Roger Corman in 1990, based on a novel published in 1973 by Brian Aldiss.[47] This novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above.
• 1991: Khatra is a Hindi movie of Bollywood made by director H. N. Singh loosely based on the story of Frankenstein.
• 1995: Monster Mash is a film adaptation of I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night[48] starring Bobby "Boris" Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. The film also features Candace Cameron Bure, Anthony Crivello and Mink Stole.
• 1998: Billy Frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the Frankenstein Monster to life. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray.
• 2004: Frankenstein[49] is a made-for-TV film based on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.
• 2005: Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, a 90-minute feature film homage of classic monsters and Atomic Age creature features, shot in black and white, and directed by William Winckler. The Frankenstein Monster design and make-up was based on the character description in Mary Shelley's novel.
• 2009: Frankenhood, a feature film comedy where a corpse is brought back to life by a mad scientist to help morgue employees win a street basketball tournament.[50]
• 2009: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a short film from Chillerama.[51]
• 2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book.
• 2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time, a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in the real world.[52]
• 2012: Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name.[41]
• 2012: In the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King removes body parts from all the princesses that rejected him and creates a jigsaw wife to love him.
• 2012: A Nightmare on Lime Street, Fred Lawless's comedy play starring David Gest staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.[53]
• 2013: The Frankenstein Theory. Mary Shelley's novel is presented as a fictionalized account of the experiments of scientist "Johann Venkenheim." The film deals with Venkenheim's modern-day descendant searching for proof of the monster's existence.
• 2014: I, Frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film.[54] The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein and Bill Nighy. The film is based on the graphic novel.
• 2014: Frankenstein, MD, a web show by Pemberly Digital starring Victoria, a female adaptation of Victor.
• 2015: The Supernatural season 10 episodes "Book of the Damned", "Dark Dynasty" and "The Prisoner"[55] feature the Styne Family which member Eldon Styne identifies as the descendants of the house of Frankenstein. According to Eldon, Mary Shelley had learned their secrets while on a visit to Castle Frankenstein and wrote a book based on her experiences, forcing the Frankensteins underground as the Stynes. The Stynes, through bio-engineering and surgical enhancements, feature many of the superhuman attributes of the Frankenstein Monster.
• 2015: The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series, starring Sean Bean as John Marlott and Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley.[56]
• 2016: Second Chance, a TV series known at one point as Frankenstein, was inspired by the classic.[57]
• 2020: "The Haunting of Villa Diodati", an episode of Doctor Who, is based on the period in 1816 where Shelley was at Villa Diodati, providing an alternative basis, within the Doctor Who universe, of the origin of the Frankenstein monster as a half-converted Cyberman.[58]