Life Without Soul (1915) is a lost horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg.

This film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

In the end, it turns out that a young man has dreamed the events of the film after falling asleep reading Shelley's novel.

[2] The first version was the Edison Manufacturing Company's 12-minute short film Frankenstein (1910), written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.

The story is about the Brute Man killing the sister of his creator (Dr. William Frawley) on her wedding night.