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It's a good film and my introduction to Frankenstein.
15. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
This omnisexual cult mashup of horror and sci-fi cliches doesn’t do justice to Richard O’Brien’s stage show, but the songs still hit the spot. We must be thankful, too, that Tim Curry’s definitive performance as the cross-dressing Dr Frank-N-Furter has been preserved for posterity: “In just seven days, I can make you a man!”
On song ... Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter. Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/20th Century Fox/Allstar
Great movie but no much Frankenstein, Rocky is a side character and the film focuses on Brad, Janet and Frank-N-Furter.
8. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Peter Cushing is his usual magnificent self as the brilliant but embittered Frankenstein, for whom stitching body parts together has lost its magic. Instead, he decides to transfer the soul of unjustly executed Hans into the corpse of the young man’s disfigured girlfriend, who drowned herself after he died. Terence Fisher conjures up his customary dark fairytale atmosphere in one of Hammer’s best Frankenstein sequels. The baron’s arrogance is hilarious; as his beautiful creature sets about seducing and murdering the upper-class miscreants responsible for Hans’s death, you can’t help cheering her on.
Under the Hammer ... Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg in Frankenstein Created Woman. Photograph: Hammer Films/StudioCanal/Allstar
All Hammer movies are great and B-movie exemplars, yet I hardly hear of them outside of British horror.
4. Frankenstein (1931)
“It’s alive!” No sooner has Henry Frankenstein (not yet a baron) cobbled together a creature from bits of cadaver than he wanders off to get married – apparently suffering from mad-scientist ADHD – leaving the monster to throttle Frankenstein’s assistants and drown a little girl before a fiery finale. Boris Karloff, of course, does wonders in a wordless role beneath Jack Pierce’s quintessential makeup. Whale’s Frankenstein movie was not the first (there were at least three silents, including a 1910 short from Edison Studios), but it interpreted Shelley’s story with a visionary magic that casts its spell over the horror genre to this day.
Visionary magic ... Boris Karloff and Marilyn Harris in Frankenstein. Photograph: Universal/Allstar
It's just beautiful.
3. Young Frankenstein (1974)
“Please, I beg you, for safety’s sake, don’t humiliate him!” Mel Brooks’s affectionate pastiche of old Universal horror movies is his most consistently funny film, but also charms in its own right as a black-and-white fairytale. Gene Wilder is the doctor trying to play down his infamous ancestry (“It’s pronounced Fronkensteen”), Peter Boyle the monster with the zip in his neck (Universal held the copyright to the neck bolts), Marty Feldman the hunchback. Also delightful: Gene Hackman as the blind hermit, Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher [horse whinny], Madeline Kahn’s operatic skills and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
Zippy comedy ... Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar
Probably my favourite film on the list and people who make parodies should really follow the 'Mel Brooks model' of making a loving parody and not the cash in 'make fun of'.
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Weird Science - a film where 2 high school nerds create 'the perfect' woman, pure 80's, pure fun. Featuring a song by The Mystical Knights of Oingo Boingo.
Carry on Screaming - Haven't watched this in over 20 years, parody of a lot of horror films/shows.
