Wolf Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) returns to his native Frankenstein from England, where he was raised, with his wife Elsa and son Peter (Donnie Dunagan) in tow. He’s also brought along his servants, including his faithful butler Benson (Edgar Norton). The locals, however, are not happy with this turn of events, and, superstitious lot that they are, already blame Frankenstein’s monster (Boris Karloff) and his “curse” for nearly everything. Ygor (Bela Lugosi), meanwhile, lives in the ruins of Frankenstein’s lab and has been using the crippled but not dead monster for revenge. The monster, however, seems to have run out of steam, so Ygor begins convincing the all-too-ready-to-overlook-Ygor’s-lies Wolf to take up his fathers work, while Inspector Krogh (Lionel Atwill), himself mutilated by the monster as a child, sniffs around trying to figure out exactly what’s going on at the Frankenstein mansion….![]()
