Universal Monsters - Viewing Order

iceman109 said:
Do all Hammer studio films qualify to be on the timeline or is it just the horror stuff?
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Neither. Only connected stuff or films Universal had a hand in. For example, Scary Monsters Magazine -> Dracula (Hammer) -> One More Time -> Frankenstein (Hammer), and Universal were involved in The Mummy.
 
The Shadow of Frankenstein novel plot:
Following his lab's explosion, Henry and Elizabeth Frankenstein head to London for a rest (and to avoid possible criminal charges). The monster, still alive, follows, but winds up in the Whitechapel district. There, he's mistaken for a disfigured, mentally disabled man and befriended by local prostitutes. When one of the whores is horribly murdered, the creature roams the area, hoping to protect the survivors. This brings him in contact with the real killer-Jack the Ripper. After 47 years, he's back in action. His 1887 slayings (sacrifices) extended his life. Now he's aging again and desperate to remain alive, and sees in the reanimated corpse of the Frankenstein monster a possible new way to live forever. Henry, the monster and Jack the Ripper's fates become entwined as Jack the Ripper hatches a plan to frame the monster for the killings, to force Henry to reveal his secrets of life and death.
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I think we have to say that the Pandora's Bride novel is about a different Henry/Elizabeth/Monster/Bride that experienced similar events to the films in the late 1920s. Henry dies in that novel and yet he's alive in this one set 47 years after Jack the Ripper's killings.

Pandora's Box (1929), which is linked by Lulu's appearance in Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Box (novel), can be set in 1929 since Jack the Ripper's age doesn't matter. Frankenstein: The Shadow of Frankenstein is set 47 years after the Jack the Ripper killings... apparently 1887 but his real killings were 1888-1891. This is set before Son of Frankenstein so placing it in 1935, 47 years after 1888, makes the most sense to me.
 
iceman109 said:
Would it be okay if you made a list of all known Frankensteins?
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All (major) family members? I'll try. I don't think I'll bother listing Elizabeth.

Victor Frankenstein
17?? - Mary Shalley's Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff

Victor Frankenstein
1830 - Frankenstein: The True Story

Baron Victor Frankenstein
1860 - The Curse of Frankenstein
1863 - The Revenge of Frankenstein
1867 - The Evil of Frankenstein
1868 - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1873 - Frankenstein Created Woman
1880 - Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Baron Victor Frankenstein
1876 - The Horror of Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein
1888 - Van Helsing

Henry Frankenstein
1899 - Frankenstein (1931)
1899 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #1, "Chapter One: The Hands of a Father"
1899 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #2, "Chapter Two: The Brain of a Killer"
1899 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #3, "Chapter Three: The Heart of a Lover"
1899 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #4, "Chapter Four: The Eyes of a Monster"
1899 - The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 - Frankenstein: The Shadow of Frankenstein

Henry Frankenstein
192? - The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Bride

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Son of Henry Frankenstein (1931))
1939 - Son of Frankenstein

Ludwig Frankenstein (Son of Henry Frankenstein (1931))
1942 - The Ghost of Frankenstein

Peter von Frankenstein (Son of Baron Wolf von Frankenstein)
1939 - Son of Frankenstein

Baroness Elsa Frankenstein (Son of Ludwig Frankenstein)
1942 - The Ghost of Frankenstein
1943 - Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Baron Frankenstein
1970 - One More Time

Victor Frankenstein
1999 - Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein

Victoria Frankenstein
2025 - Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

I haven't included everyone, but there's the gist of it.
 
To me the animatronic looks like Bela Lugosi but a few years younger and a different hair style
 
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