History Film / TheBride

* BladeEnthusiast: Bela, the chief enforcer to the RepulsiveRingmaster of Circus Magar, is constantly playing with a clasp knife in a threatening manner. He eventually uses it to cut the safety line on Rinaldo's safety line.

* JabbaTableManners: When Frankenstein and Mrs. Baumann are attempting to teach Eva civilised manners, they allow her eat after she correctly says she is about to eat chicken. However, when the plate is placed in front of her, she starts to eat by lowering her face directly onto the plate.

* RepulsiveRingmaster: Viktor and Rinaldo travel by foot through Europe, eventually arriving in Budapest, where they become involved with a circus owner named Magar, who hires them despite his dislike for Rinaldo. During a trapeze performance with the circus, Rinaldo is fatally injured in a fall. When Viktor learns that Magar deliberately tampered with Rinaldo's harness, causing the fall, he flies into a rage, flipping Magar's caravan over before murdering one of the performers.

* FrankensteinsMonster: The film actually opens on Dr. Frankenstein creating his ''second'' monster, a woman who will be the bride of the first (thus the title). As in the [[Film/Frankenstein1931 1931 film]] the first is a large man who says little at first, with visible deformities and scars. However, the bride (Eva, as she's later named) is beautiful and looks the same as a normal woman. She's repulsed upon first seeing her "groom", so he flies into a rage, destroys the laboratory and flees. They go their separate ways, but retain a {{psychic link}}, although neither realizes this initially.

* BlindAlley: While being chased through the town by the [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]], Viktor steps into an alcove in the wall and the entire mob runs past him without seeing him.

* PsychicLink: Viktor and Eva share a psychic connection, so when Eva is spinning around, Viktor also gets dizzy. this psychic link eventually draws him back to the site of their mutual creation.

* BladeEnthusiast: Bela, the chief enforcer to the ReplusiveRingmaster of Circus Magar, is constantly playing with a clasp knife in a threatening manner. He eventually uses it to cut the safety line on Rinaldo's safety line.

* ShoutOut: The dwarf in the film is named Rinaldo, after the name of blacklisted Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' screenwriter Frederic I. Rinaldo.

* BandageBabe: Eva begins as a corpse, completely smothered in medical fabric, who is brought to life with intense blasts of electricity.

* BenchBreaker: While shackled to the wall of the jail, Viktor senses Eva's emotional distress through their PsychicLink and rips the shackles out of the wall in order to go to her aid.

* ImmpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After learning that Bela was responsible for Rinaldo's death, Viktor grabs him bodily, [[HoistHeroOverHead lifts him above his head]] and hurls him at the lion's cage, where he is impaled on one of the bars.

* PygmalionPlot: Disgusted by his dim-witted and ugly original creation, Dr. Frankenstein sets out to animate an improved version. Though lovely on the outside, Eva begins her new life as little more than an animal. With the help of his trusty housekeeper, however, Frankenstein soon grooms the beautiful zombie into a reasonable facsimile of an upper-class debutante.

* PsychicLink: Viktor and Eva share a psychic connection, so when Eva is spinning around, Viktor also gets dizzy. this psychic link eventually draws him back to the site of their mutual creation.

After the creation of his creature, Dr. Frankenstein researches and creates the perfect woman, Eva, to be the mate of the creature. However, the anxiety of the creature creates havoc in the laboratory, which is burnt down and explodes, killing Frankenstein's assistants, Dr. Zahlus and Paulus. Dr. Frankenstein believes the creature died too, but he has fled to the woods. Soon the creature meets and befriends the dwarf Rinaldo, who gives him the name Viktor, and invites him to work in a circus in Budapest. Meanwhile, Frankenstein and his house keeper, Mrs. Baumann, teach Eva how to behave and to be independent. One day, Frankenstein introduces Eva to the high-society, telling her that she was an amnesic found in the woods and has become his protégée. Frankenstein becomes obsessed with Eva, while she and Viktor have a strange connection.

* ManOnFire: Frankenstein's [[TheIgor hunchbacked assistant]] Paulus catches fire and suffers a RailingKill during the explosion in the laboratory.

After the creation of his creature, Dr. Frankenstein researches and creates the perfect woman, Eva, to be the mate of the creature. However, the anxiety of the creature creates havoc in the laboratory, which is burnt down and explodes, killing Frankenstein's assistants, Dr. Zahlus and Paulus. Dr. Frankenstein believes the creature died too, but he has fled to the woods. Soon the creature meets and befriends the dwarf Rinaldo, who gives him the name Viktor, and invites him to work in a circus in Budapest. Meanwhile, Frankenstein and his house keeper, Mrs. Baumann, teach Eva how to behave and to be independent. One day, Frankenstein introduces Eva to the high-society, telling her that she was an amnesic found in the woods and has become his protégée. Frankenstein becomes obsessed with Eva, while she and Viktor have a strange connection.