Mary Shelley’s novel has been adapted several times over the years on both stage and screen, but no version is more notable nor done more to bring the story to a wider audience than the 1931 Frankenstein. The Universal Studios’ film set the look of the classic Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff) which, despite being diffent than described in Shelley’s work, is still immediately recognizable today and synonymous with the name.
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Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, writer/director Frank Henenlotter‘s bizarre horror-comedy stars James Lorinz as a would-be scientist who attempts to bring back his girlfriend (Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen) after she’s dismembered in a ridiculous lawnmower accident. Needing body parts to fill out his Frankenstein-ish creation, Jeff targets Crack-addicted New York hookers who he kills off through the use of his new drug which make the group of half-naked women each explode in one of the film’s most memorable moments.
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The death of a popstar (MacKenzie Porter) staying at one of Phyllis’ (Fiona Vroom) rental properties provides the murder of the week for Karl (Rossif Sutherland) to solve while Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) attempts to comfort her stressed out best-friend who appears to be on the path to a nervous breakdown. Given both have their hands full, we don’t see much of the couple together other than a quick check-in here and there as he heads out to the crime scene and she to a town council meeting.
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There are early examples of films that mixed comedy and horror, but those were more slapstick in style such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Shelved for more than a decade as investors were leary on the project that seemed too scary for a comedy and too silly for a horror flick, the success of 1981’s An American Werewolf in London would prove doubters wrong and open up a new subgenre for films such as Evil Dead 2 and Shaun of the Dead mixing comedic elements with more serious horror elements and gore.
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