弗兰肯斯坦(科林·克利夫 Colin Clive 饰)是一个天才科学家,他想像上帝一样创造生命,于是不顾学校教授的反对,离开了大学,和助手到山上的一座古堡里做人体实验。他从墓地等地方找来了各种人体残肢,还从学校实验室偷了一颗大脑,利用这些制造出一具人体。他的未婚妻伊丽莎 白(梅·克拉克 Mae Clarke 饰)出于担心,就与好友(约翰·博尔斯 John Boles 饰)和学校教授一同去古堡实验室找弗兰肯斯坦。正是在这个暴风雨之夜,弗兰肯斯坦的人体实验完成了——他利用雷电让手术台上的躯体有了生命。然而几天后,这个由科学家创造出来的怪物开始不受控制,他先是把科学家的助手杀死,又开始攻击教授和科学家。 于是,身心俱疲的科学家被接了回家,并且开始筹备婚礼,而怪物则留给教授处理。但是怪物却把教授杀死了,从实验台上逃了出来,一步一步走近村庄,还把一个小女孩淹死。正在举行婚礼的弗兰肯斯坦对此浑然不知……
In 1815, an American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own, must fight his way back to them across the many perils found in the Savage Lands of the wild frontier.
After attending a medical conference in Beijing and coming frighteningly close to dying in a car crash, Dr Matthew Nolan, played by Armitage (Obsession, Stay Close) arrives home and is immediately arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport. Exhausted and confused, Nolan is accused of the murder of a woman who was in the car he crashed. DC Hana Li, played by Lusi, is the no-nonsense, London officer charged with accompanying Nolan back to Beijing, but plenty happens on the way.