The Ghost of Frankenstein was directed by Erle C. Kenton and was released on March 13, 1942. It is the fourth film in Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein series, following The Son of Frankenstein (1939). In this movie, the monster and his friend, Ygor, flee their town and are in search of Dr. Frankenstein’s son, Ludwig, because they want to replace the monster’s damaged brain with Ygor’s. Due to the fact that this is a sequel to Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein series, it does not follow the plot of Mary Shelley’s 1818 edition of Frankenstein, yet takes inspiration from it and builds off of it to create a continuation of the story. As the first movie in the Frankenstein series that didn’t star Boris Karloff as the monster, the audience would be seeing a new face of the monster despite the physical attributes being presented similarly.