The first man-made monster*…the first sympathetic monster…the first slasher killer…the first monster undone by falling in love with his victim-to-be…
The first mad scientist…the first authority figure figure who turned an innocent placed in his charge into a murderous automaton to achieve his own ends…
Which, really, is really cinema’s first monster?
[*I’m not counting Edison’s short, I mean full-length movies.]
