Happy Frankenstein Friday! I wanted to draw your attention to the 1957 "The Curse Of Frankenstein" movie (based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel).
Peter Cushing plays Baron Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee, who played opposite each other in many oldschool horror/Hammer films, plays Frankenstein's monster.
#Frankenstein the novel is better than the movie. And while we're doing our haunted house book club, can everyone please remember that Frankenstein is the name of the Doctor (Victor) and not the creature. It's really important that we're on the same page with this.
Hooked on the Monster? A regular Frankie fan? Frankophile? Bride to be? It's your lucky day! We've recently dug up two pieces of Frankenstein lore & assembled them here! If you're out puttin' on the ritz, make us a stop your list!
“A creature born out of the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, after being presumed death in a fire forty years before, is tracked down by another scientist, Dr. Septimus Pretorius, who wishes to continue the experiments started by Dr. Frankenstein.” ~ from the IMDb listing for the upcoming #Frankenstein#movie by Guillermo del Toro
Dr. Septimus Pretorius, patron saint of #gay mad scientists, returns!
I've been trying to #read more #scifi lately. I'm a slow reader so it's slow going, but I've been having fun and exploring both old and new, classics and award winners, authors I know and others I don't. As you might guess, it's a mixed bag, but mostly positive as I've been sticking mainly with highly recommended works. Given this is #October, I've decided to finally read #Frankenstein. That's right, I've never read it all the way through. Maybe this time I'll finish it.
"I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! ... His hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his shriveled complexion."