While still in medical school, Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life. Despite the ridicule of his peers, he conducts private experiments in the rejuvenation of dead tissue. Using bodies stolen from the morgue, he assembles a human cadaver and revives it with the electrical charge of lightning. Seeking revenge on its maker, the tormented creature begins a brutal rampage of destruction and murder, which leads to a final confrontation between creator and created in the frozen arctic.