 Hello and welcome to today's special Halloween season edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but to start things off What are we drinking today? The Demeter's Fate Russian Imperial Stout. Mmm. Good. Gives buzz. Today we are going to be counting down five forgotten Frankenstein films. We're gonna start with 1970s horror of Frankenstein. Hammer's attempt at sort of rebooting the franchise, I guess. Rebooting their own franchise. They did a little bit of a different take on this one. More of a comedy. It's not, you know, in your face slapstick comedy, but there's definitely more witty dialogue and you know they made Victor Frankenstein a pompous, arrogant, womanizing, rich brat. We're gonna have to examine each other closer. He's like, oh should I take my clothes off now or later? No, I think later. Kills his own dad to get the inheritance and you don't really know why he's creating this monster. It's more just because he's pompous and he can't. He just wants to prove people that he can do something they can't. Ralph Bates as Victor Frankenstein is I think very good at being like a pompous prick. You enjoy watching him be an asshole. I really like the monster design in this. Yeah, it's really cool because he is very intimidating looking. Yeah, he's pretty strong too. Like when he stands up, you see his muscles and everything. And I like the skull that's like all fractured and all these different places. You can see it's been put back together like a puzzle almost. The second the monster's created, he goes on a murdering spree. Victor Frankenstein blames all the murders on his cook. Yeah, it's like what the fuck? He's a good friend. The monster is played by David Prowse who also of course famously played Darth Vader. Right. And he was also the Frankenstein monster in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. And the ending is pretty funny. Yeah. It's kind of anti-climactic, comedic ending. No little girl, don't pull that lever. That's it. That's like the whole... Definitely probably one of the first comedic attempts at the Frankenstein story, I think. If you want to see Hammer's fresh take on the Frankenstein franchise, check out Horror Frankenstein. That takes us to number four on our list. And this one is Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein, 1973. This one takes another different turn. He's doing it actually for quite a sinister reason. He wants to create a master race of these super humans that are going to basically do his bidding. Yeah, rule the world. It's kind of neat too, it's different where he's not just making the man first and then later the woman. He's making the man and the woman at the same time so they can procreate and make this race, you know? Yeah, but for that they need a brain. A horny brain that's horny enough to procreate. Where are you going to get it, right? They go to the town brothel. With huge shears. But obviously they get the wrong brain, naturally. Instead of an abnormal brain, it's a non-horny brain. You have the wrong fucking kid. And it's not so sleazy, you know, it's not like hyper-sexual. It's kind of a comedy first, sexploitation second. Yeah, they did it in a tasteful way, actually. Udo Kier plays Dr. Frankenstein in this and he of course is over the top and magnificent at being over the top. To no death, Rato, you must fuck life in the gallbladder! What the hell is that? All the acting in this movie is actually, for what the movie is, is actually not bad, right? It's supposed to be kind of cheesy and fun. The kids are snooping around and they open like this cupboard and they see like lungs in the heart. Like breathing on its own. Yeah, that's cool. Pretty neat. Then at the end he gets nice and bloody. Exactly. Udo Kier loses his arm again. Yeah, or yeah, his hand or whatever, yeah. Ooh, in that cage. Yeah, that door. Yeah, like, how would you take your hand right off? So if you want like a real fun comedic approach to the Frankenstein story that's, you know, got a little bit of sleaze, a little bit of smut, a lot of blood. But does it all tastefully? Does it tastefully? Check out Flesh for Frankenstein. Yeah, it definitely knows what it is and what they're doing, right? The next one on our list is an actually forgotten film. It was lost and recently recovered the 1910 version, the Thomas Edison Frankenstein. And it's the first ever filmed screen version of that story. It's only like 13 minutes long, but they managed to actually get the whole point across in that 13 minutes. They do a really good job. The effects for 1910 are really cool and, you know, the creation of the monster. In the book, they don't explain how the monster is made, so every film has to do its own interpretation of that. And this is kind of different. It's more of like alchemy. Yeah. There is no mad scientist laboratory template at this point that every movie is basing theirs off. They were the first to kind of, okay, well, how does he do it? I guess he just uses a cauldron and the monster comes out and is formed like on screen. It looks really neat. And the monster itself looks really cool and quite creepy, actually. Very grotesque. It looks like a nightmare. And the ending is different. It's not like the ending in the book. You know, they had to wrap it up quick. It's really neat and the effect to get his knee relooks in the mirror. Yeah, he like disappears from the floor, but he's still in the mirror. Yeah, he's caught in the mirror. Yeah, and then he disappears again. So if you want to see like the first ever Frankenstein movie that sort of set the tone for everything else to follow, check that one out. You can watch it on YouTube. That brings us to number two on our list here. And this one was made for TV movie, actually. Yeah. It's a 1992s Frankenstein. This one follows the book pretty damn close, actually. Yeah, really close. The only real difference is there's like a psychic link shared between the monster and Victor Frankenstein, which isn't in the book, but it makes sense in the movie. It works. The performances in this movie is really what makes it. Yeah. And you wouldn't think it, but Randy Quaid plays the monster. And you know that Randy Quaid playing Frankenstein's monster, but he nails it so good at the dramatic end of it, where you really sympathize with him. And man, you feel sorry for that guy. Patrick Bergen plays Victor Frankenstein in this. Excellent in this movie. Yeah. Fuck, I can't imagine that a guy had a voice left at the end. After, yeah. That one scene after the monster kills his, his fiance, he runs out of the house, he's screaming at the top of his lungs. I'll kill you! Chase you to the ends of the earth! Who's breathing? Holy shit. The way he creates the monster, he doesn't steal dead body parts. He's actually cloning his own body parts using this machine. So he's kind of like God making man in his own image. When he puts his arm through that thing and you see the arm appear in the tank to you like the way they do it, it's really cool. Very cinematic for a movie that was not released in cinemas. You really feel like you're put into that time. Probably the first Frankenstein movie I ever saw where I felt really, really sorry for the monster. I couldn't tell this all I've ever seen were the universal ones and stuff like that. Whereas you know you don't feel sorry for that guy, but here you really, your heart really breaks for the monster. This movie is damn near spot on to the book with a few small things and it's very interesting to watch, whereas a lot of like Dracula movies on the flip side, the ones that stay close to the book are fucking boring. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein came out what a couple of years later after this one. You know that kind of stole all the thunder. If this movie, if this 1992 version would have had the budget of that one, I think this would be a lot more well-known and probably known as one of the best Frankenstein movies. Yeah, it's quite forgotten actually just for simple fact that it was done for TV. That brings us to number one on our list of forgotten Frankenstein movies. And this one comes from one of our favorite movie decades ever. It is 1985's The Bride. That's right. This actually has a pretty all-star cast. Sting is in this and we all know him from The Simpsons. He's in a band once too I think. Clancy Brown is in this and we know him from Highlander I think. Jennifer Beals is in this. She was in Flashdance and Carrie Ellis is in this too right? This one they skip past all of like the useless sort of bullshit that can bog you down and it gets right to Frankenstein making The Bride. And it's really neat how they do it too. They got The Bride sort of floating in the air. It's really cool. Yeah, I really like the creation scene in this. Frankenstein finally created his perfect being. You know it's a woman and there's nothing wrong with her. She's beautiful. She's stunning. Terrified of the monster. And as fire starts they assume the monster perished in it but he didn't. You gotta be friends with this little dwarf guy, Ronaldo. Yeah and they form a very close friendship. He teaches the monster about life. Basically enjoying life and how to drink. He gets the monster drunk. Then after when they're all walking on the trail, he's all hungover. And then on the other side you have Dr. Frankenstein teaching The Bride how to function in society. High society. High society and he keeps saying she's going to be the first liberated free woman. And on the other hand he's super controlling of her. The slow progression into like his obsession with her. He smacks a lot of people in this. He's a prick. Yeah, even like the monster in the beginning. He smacks the monster, smacking Kerriellis, smacking The Bride. There's a clear class divide in the movie too, right? Which is very interesting. And you see how both of them get brought up. And also who has like more fun, who enjoys life a little more, and who doesn't. Which is kind of interesting. Who's free. Yeah and who's not. Exactly and it's like high society. Everybody thinks it's so glamorous and great but actually it's like a fucking prison. Whereas the lower ed ebb of society, you're free kind of. Yeah, Frankenstein's traveling. He's kind of seen the world. Yeah, he has a good friend. They kind of, you know, they love each other. Yeah, yeah. It's great. Ronaldo! Yeah. My baby! They join the circus and you find that circus act. It's probably what would happen if the monster was, you know, had to go live in the world. He'd probably have to join the circus. Right, yeah, because he kind of looks a little off. Another cool thing about this movie is that he just looks a little off. Right. He doesn't look like a monster. Yeah, he's not. He's not terrifying looking. He doesn't look completely right but he can still walk into like the bar and sit down and like have a drink. People are going to stare at him and maybe mock him a bit but they're not going to flee or want to, you know, drive him out of the town. And it's got a different ending than any other Frankenstein type movie too. So if you want a good like 80s fantasy approach to the Frankenstein story, definitely check out The Bride if you haven't. A lot of people shit on it when it came out and it bombed at the box office but I think it's totally worth a watch for any fan of Frankenstein movies. So that's it. That's our top five forgotten Frankenstein films. I'm sure there's many, many more out there. There's so many. So if you have any Frankenstein movies that you would suggest that are also forgotten or really good, please mention them in the comments. Yep, for sure. I'd love to see it. And until next time, keep drinking.