1931. Universal Studios, Hollywood, is placing its hopes for Depression survival on Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's blasphemous saga of a man who made a Monster. During the shooting, a self-proclaimed witch, who performs a Black Mass in Malibu, sinuously infiltrates the company, seducing Colin Clive, the young, brilliant, alcoholic actor who plays Dr. Frankenstein. The result: a shocking scandal and murder that Universal desperately...