Wait, they made a Frankenstein musical? · 2:11am Sep 18th, 2020
Why did nobody tell me about this?!
Why did nobody tell me about this?!
I've been sitting on this review for over a month now. I watched it back around Valentine's Day with my dad and wrote up a review of it, but only now have I gotten around to posting the darn thing!
But anyway, let's get into it.
Frankenstein. The classic movie, that practically launched Universal Studios' monster movies and made Boris Karloff a horror star.
What can I really say about this movie?
It's a movie that's left an indelible footprint in popular memory and culture.
This one may require a bit of background. Bear with me for a moment, please.
I'm listening to "Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind", a 2007 lecture series by Eric Rabkin about fantasy and science fiction. In lecture 14, "Frankenstein", he said the story is a warning against "science in the hands of an egotist, alienated from the restraining wisdom of community". He closed the lecture by saying, "To test the relevance of this admonition,
This is the best adaptation of Frankenstein ever made.
One more nice acquisition: a sketch from Andy Price, illustrator of the comic series, of Gadget! I described her as a "cute mad scientist girl" and he ran with it beautifully! And threw in a Young Frankenstein reference to boot!
So I've had a fun/goofy concept for another story that has also been in the works for over a year ago (and I have considering finishing) where you the reader take on the role of a mad scientist taking the corpses of a few mares and using them to create a Frankenstein themed monster mare. How long will it take before the villagers of this seaside village learn of your dastardly experiments?