- The scene opens on the exterior of Henry's watchtower. There's a big old scary horror film storm brewing.
- Switch to a very dramatic interior shot of the darkened watchtower, with Henry moving about amidst his equipment. Again, it's filmed from a fixed position with Henry moving around in the distance, as if on a stage set.
- He orders Fritz about; do this, do that, get ready for some scary unspecified experiment that will make you shake in your boots.
- Henry is relying on the storm for electricity, he says.
- There's a corpse on a table in the center of the equipment; Henry pulls a sheet off its face to show that it's bandaged tightly about the head.
- Henry says the brain Fritz stole is inside the body.
- They do a test of the equipment, giving the film a chance to throw in some dramatic sparking special effect lights. (They still look pretty nifty, even today.)
- The sparks stop sparking, and then there's a knock on the door.
- Henry tells Fritz to send whoever it is away.
- Fritz limps through the castle, in and out of shadows.
- He opens the door and it's Dr. Waldman, Elizabeth, and Victor, but Fritz won't open up.
- Henry looks down from a high window, and hears that it's Elizabeth .
- So he troops downstairs, and finally lets them in.
- But he's not happy about it.
- He tries to get them to leave, but Victor says the magic words, "You're crazy."
- All mad scientists react to those words by getting crazier, and Henry is no exception.
- He takes it as a dare, and decides to show them his experiment.
- So up they go to the lab.
- Henry makes Victor and Elizabeth sit down. Waldman's about to uncover the body, but Fritz yells at him, and Henry stops him.
- Henry then says he's discovered a super ray that's the basis of all life.
- Dr. Waldman says essentially, "Sure, buddy, whatever."
- Henry tells him that he's going to bring a monster to life just to prove it.
- He also says the body is stitched together from other dead bodies. Everybody seems to think that's kind of gross.
- Then he starts up all the special effects machinery again. Henry and Fritz uncover the body.
- Why make a super strong large body? Why not make a small, easily handled body that can't hurt anyone?
- Oh, well, too late now. In the most famous scene of the film, probably, the table with the body rises up through the darkness towards an open rectangular skylight.
- Lights flash, thunder rolls, actors react with expressions of horror and fascination.
- This goes on for a bit.
- Then the table descends.
- There's a close up of the monster's hand, which is moving. Henry does the famous cackling, shouting, "It's alive!" and comparing himself to God.
- The others try to restrain him lest his overacting cause a chain reaction and destroy them all.