Movie Auditor › Rankings › 1931 › Frankenstein
Frankenstein (1931): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Frankenstein is a 1931 drama, horror, sci-fi film directed by James Whale. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 77 while Metacritic critics give it 91, a gap of 14 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 3 of 77 films from 1931 in our catalog and number 20 of 1,143 horror films.
Billed cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr.
Compare it with other films in the interactive table
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
More from James Whale
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Invisible Man (1933) Show Boat (1936) Waterloo Bridge (1931) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) The Old Dark House (1932) All James Whale films
More drama films of the 1930s
Modern Times (1936) City Lights (1931) M (1931) Gone with the Wind (1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Browse
1931 1930s Drama Horror Sci-Fi Drama of the 1930s Critics vs audiences