Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant medical student, worked on a grand experiment—to create life from dead bodies. After many months he was successful. His quest to do something to help mankind went terribly wrong and the creation was a monster. After the monster turned on Victor he knew the monster must be destroyed.

Victor returns to his home to find his younger brother has been killed and Victor realizes it is the work of the monster he created. Victor retreats to the mountains to escape the horrors he has created but the monster follows him and ends up wandering in the mountains.

In the end the monster and one of the inhabitants of the cabin fight and the monster falls through the ice into the darke and frozen depts of a deep lake.