Goofs

During the movie, the scars on the Creature's chin and lip change. First his lip is split, later it's healed but he has other wounds on his chin. Then his lip and chin are healed, with no scars. But later we see big scars on both his chin and lip.

Just before the big announcement of Victor starting medical school, Victor is dancing with Elizabeth. They stop, and the camera focuses for a few seconds on Frankenstein senior. It then focuses on the crowd, and Justine is now standing next to Victor and Elizabeth is not near him.

When Victor first proposes to Elizabeth, he gets on one knee. After he stands up, she puts a hand on his shoulder. It then cuts to a shot of his head and shoulders and her hand is not there.

The opening crawl states that Captain Robert Walton set sail in the early 19th century. Then the next caption states that it is 1794, which is still in the 18th century.

The prologue actually states that it is "the dawn of the 19th Century," which in common English vernacular refers to the period of time around the start of the new century. The year 1794 would fall within this reference.

Victor Frankenstein states that hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. While commonly believed, this is false. As the skin becomes dehydrated, it recedes, exposing hair and nail tissue that was already there. However, this might not have been well-known in the 18th century. In addition, a movie about a sentient person being born from patchwork corpses requires a great degree of suspension of disbelief in matters about science, so it also appropriate to treat the notion as if it is true within the reality depicted in the film.

The "electric eels" Victor uses to animate the creature are clearly ordinary freshwater eels that are raised on fish farms for food and certainly don't produce electrical currents. The electric eel is native to South American rivers, has a much chunkier body, and isn't a true eel at all.

In several scenes, Frankenstein and others are shown waltzing. Until the mid 19th century, the waltz was considered a coarse peasant dance; people of refinement would never dance it.

When Professor Waldman is administering cholera vaccinations, and they are struggling with the townsperson, the man is saying "You're not sticking that in me," but his mouth remains tightly closed.

When the grandfather is playing the recorder he takes breaths on notes instead of between notes.

When young Elizabeth is introduced to the family by Alphonse Frankenstein, she looks into the camera twice.