Released in 1994 under the direction of Kenneth Branagh ("Henry V," "Thor") on a budget of $45 million with distribution through Tristar Pictures; "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein," is one of a slew of horror remakes that came about in the 1990's following Francis Ford Coppola's critically praised "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Other remakes that came between 1992-1999 includes the likes of 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula," 1993's "Body Snatchers," 1994's "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein," 1995's "Village of the Damned," 1998's "Psycho," 1999's "The Haunting," "Sleepy Hollow," and "The Mummy."
Of these movies, three were spiritual remakes of the movies by Universal Studios from the 1930's which were in themselves, adapted from novels (except for "The Mummy" but that's debatable). Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Dracula was a superb, albeit flawed, adaptation that set the movie at the novel's original setting and followed t
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