Shock! Halloween Countdown - Day 18

[@JurassicReptile]

This is a movie I can’t watch without immediately watching Bride of Frankenstein right after. They just go together so well.

[@cherylbowker3717]

This 🎥 goes down in 🎥 history!!!

[@itsthelasttime13]

Absolutely loved this as a kid (still do today)! This is the movie that started my childhood obsession with monster makeup and effects. Love to see it on the countdown this year. Thanks, Dr. Gangrene!⚰⚗⚡

[@conalcochran156]

One of the greatest films of all time. There’s no words that can describe how good this movie is and not enough words to do it justice. I agree. 💀💀💀💀💀

[@MarkMeans]

I'm with you, Doc. Always up for a re-watch of Frankenstein. Great pick!

[@williamblasko1031]

Morgus was my guy!!! I actually live and grew up in South Georgia, but Morgus Presents was played on Saturday nights on our local Fox affiliate Channel 31. Morgus always made my Saturday!🎃

[@drgangrene]

Morgus was amazing. Love his shows!

[@CourteousKitsch]

Good to see Dr. Morgus honored today! He had his own assistants, the huge but bumbling silent masked axe man Chopsley, along with his talking skull, Eric. He was so popular that they made a full length movie out of his character. Morgus also did a weather program for a station out of Detroit, and then came back as a horror host in New Orleans for the Eighties, where I saw Frankenstein for the first time. Thanks, Doc, for the memories!

[@pcaviator687]

One of my all time favorites from Universal. Pure classic.

[@johnruggieri9089]

One of the greatest movies ever!!

[@mr.danandhorror4230]

What a classic! Great review Doc

[@AnthonySmith-ty7ij]

A true masterpiece of horror. Frankenstein is a movie I watched over and over and can't get enough of it. Karloff gave the performance of a star, and not even LUGOSI, Lon Chaney Jr., and Glenn Strange could not come close to it.

[@ivorybow]

I love to repeat my mother's "review." She was 13 when Frankenst;ein was released. The national cultural mania was like it was for Starwars and Alien. She told me it was "horrible." Not in the sense of horrible-bad, but horrible in the sense of the intense horror and shocking images and concepts. Nothing like it had ever been seen. She said she had nightmares for weeks and to that day...she was telling me this when she was in her 70s, she wished she had never seen it. Indeed, there is nothing more terrifying than the inhuman, blank, but so very dark look Karloff was able to give us through that brilliant makeup. A look that told you, you were already dead.

[@samharpershow]

As always DOC you're the best ! ❤️

[@drgangrene]

Thanks Sam! Happy Halloween!

[@samharpershow]

@@drgangrene Happy Halloween!

[@samharpershow]

and stay MAD =)

[@CraigCrowder]

One of my favorite movies of all time, and I agree that this one is better than Bride. 🎃🎃

[@scottmoore1614]

This is a BIGGIE! I’m still amazed at how short it is. What a masterpiece. Yes, Dwight Frye is great. I also love Frederick Kerr as Henry’s cantankerous dad, Baron Frankenstein. One I can watch over and over. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen it! But, it all started on Shock back in the 70s. I agree, I’ve always felt as though it’s actually better than Bride, although both films are undeniably great.

[@dancinggodzilla2169]

Frankenstein's monster giving a little girl a swimming lesson 😂

[@Bucky749]

Bride of Frankenstein was the first Frankenstein movie I ever saw

[@drgangrene]

Cool. Frankenstein might have been mine.

[@curtisrice142s9]

I think I brought up before that I knew Mae Clark in her later years. She was a fun person. She really didn't like to talk about her time in Hollywood.

[@borisfw]

I also believe Frankenstein is the best of the Franchise.

[@JEFFIE-jp6kj]

Karloff, Clive, Van Sloan & Frye are perfect .. I liked Valerie Hobson better as Elizabeth .. I knew Ken Strickfaden, a difficult man with little patience but glad I got to spend time with him, all those wonderful electrical gadgets were finally stuffed into his little garage in Santa Monica CA

[@drgangrene]

I'd have loved to visit with Strickfadden and see those original props in person. Very cool!

[@alexplorer]

Agreed! "Bride" is over-rated. There are great things in it, but there are also unnecessary parts (e.g., the little people in jars created by Dr. Pretorius seem like a more profound achievement than reanimating the dead, but they're just eye candy) while the bride herself is in it for, what?, three minutes? It's disappointing. Conversely, "Son of Frankenstein" is underrated. Zacherley said more than once that it was his favorite of the classic films. He pointed out that they'd perfected the aesthetics by that time. There's a lot more German expressionism in the set design and lighting that you might have seen in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." But you're right; the original was absolutely the best.