Frankenstein

Unlike Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," the 1931 film doesn't portray the monster as sympathetic and Frankenstein gets away fine. In other words, the filmmakers completely missed the point of the story, which is finding the monster in man and the man in monster. Perhaps this paved the way for other horror movies blah blah blah, but I'd rather watch the movies that are farther along that paved path.