The Monster (Boris Karloff)’s Timeline and Summary
- Henry Frankenstein and his assistant Fritz build a monster out of dead body parts and reanimate it using electricity.
- The monster's kept locked up; Fritz torments it with fire.
- Bad move Fritz; the monster kills his tormentor.
- Frankenstein's upset; he and his teacher Dr. Waldman drug the monster unconscious.
- Frankenstein leaves his remote lab to prepare for his wedding; Waldman decides to vivisect the monster and then destroy it.
- The monster strangles Waldman before Waldman can kill it.
- Then the monster heads out for an excursion. It plays with a little girl, and then accidentally kills her.
- The villagers are enraged, and organize a search party to kill the monster.
- Frankenstein helps lead the search party, and ends up confronting the monster.
- The monster captures him and takes him to a windmill.
- The windmill's surrounded by villagers. The monster and Frankenstein struggle, and Frankenstein falls from the windmill.
- The villagers burn the windmill, killing the monster.
- Poor monster (but don't cry—he'll be back in Bride of Frankenstein).