Lunch Hour 2

In 1794, Captain Walton leads an expedition to the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in ice, a frightening noise is heard and a cloaked man emerges from the mist, telling the crew to follow him with their weapons. The dogs run toward the noise but are killed by its source. The newcomer reveals that his name is Victor Frankenstein and tells his life story (in flashback). Victor grows up with his adopted sister Elizabeth Lavenza. Victor's mother dies giving birth to his brother William, and Victor vows to find a way to conquer death. He and his friend Henry Clerval study medicine at the University of Ingolstadt under professor Shmael Augustus Waldman, whose notes contain information on creating life. Waldman warns Victor not to use them lest he create an abomination. While inoculating people for smallpox, Waldman is murdered by a patient who is subsequently hanged. Using the killer's body and Waldman's brain, Victor builds a creature based on Waldman's notes. He gives his creation life but is horrified by the creature's hideous appearance and tries to kill him. The creature steals Victor's coat and flees. The creature shelters for months in a family's barn, learning to read and speak by watching them. He attempts to earn their trust by anonymously tending to their land and bringing them food, and he eventually converses with the elderly, blind patriarch. When the man's family returns and sees the creature, they are terrified by his appearance and chase him away. The creature finds Victor's journal and learns the circumstances of his creation. After returning to the farmhouse, he discovers that the family has abandoned it. He burns down the farm and vows revenge on Victor for bringing him into a world that hates him. Returning to Geneva to marry Elizabeth, Victor learns that his younger brother William has been murdered. The Frankensteins' servant Justine is blamed and hanged by a violent mob. The creature makes his survival known to Victor and abducts him, admitting that he is the killer. He demands the creation of a female companion for him, promising in return to leave Victor and humanity in peace. Victor agrees, but when the creature insists that he use Justine's body, he is horrified and breaks his promise. The creature exacts revenge on Victor by killing his father, and then, during Victor's wedding night, he breaks into Elizabeth's bridal suite and rips out her heart. Seized by grief and obsession, Victor races to bring Elizabeth back to life. He stitches her head and hands onto Justine's body and reanimates her as a disfigured, mindless shadow of her former self. The creature demands Elizabeth as his bride, leading to a fight with Victor. Realizing what has been done to her, Elizabeth ends her existence by setting herself on fire. Victor and the creature escape as the mansion burns. Back in the Arctic, Victor tells Walton that he has been pursuing his creation for months to kill him. Victor dies of pneumonia. Walton later discovers the creature weeping over Victor's body, having lost the only family that he has known. The crew prepares a funeral pyre, but the ice around the ship cracks. Walton invites the creature onto the ship, but the creature chooses to remain with the pyre. He takes the torch and burns himself alive with Victor's body. Walton orders the ship to return home, avoiding repeating Victor's mistakes.