Summary: It's Alive! On today’s adventure, Adolfo and Mark know what it feels like to be God as they discuss James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN (1931) On this week’s show: How we first discovered the classic monster film Featuring ? as the Monster Feeling sympathy for the Creature Book Fairs and Famous Movie Monsters Mr. Willie’s Represent How Universal came to be known as the monster studio Bela Lugosi as the Monster?? The Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff “feud” The legend of how James Whale discovered Karloff How the film was censored, despite being pre-code Fritz VS Karl VS Igor How the film defined the monster for decades The cold open carny trick The influence of German Expressionism Henry NOT Victor Victor’s Friendzoned “Abby Normal” The greatness of the “It’s Alive!” scene Karloff’s physical performance The infamous Maria sequence How the hell did Henry survive? Universal Cinematic Universe The cancelled Guillermo del Toro remake The fate of the Dark Universe Universal Monsters stage show FILMS REFERENCED: NOSFERATU (1922) THE GOLEM (1922) DRACULA (1931) THE MUMMY (1932) THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) THE BLACK CAT (1934) BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) THE WOLF MAN (1941) THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943) HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944) HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) THE MUNSTERS (TV Series, 1964) SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN (1970) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) ED WOOD (1994) MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) GODS AND MONSTERS (1998) HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (2012) THE MUMMY (2017) SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER: @EssentialFilms, @FPMoviePodcast, @Adolfo_Acosta, @Sportsguy515 FACEBOOK: The Essential Films
