Tagged Frankenstein

What immediate associations pass through your mind when you hear the name Frankenstein? Or Dracula? Is it an image of a flat-headed, neck-bolted green giant? Does Dracula swish around in a cloak and white tie,...

Horror sequels are no new phenomenon. Returning four years after the original Frankenstein, 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein was early proof that it takes more than an angry mob to keep a good Monster down....

On a dark stormy night in 1818, a teenage girl wrote one of the most influential pieces of fiction in history. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has always appealed to movie makers – what better source...

Roger Ebert was right. In amongst the resounding cacophony of negative noise, one man stood strong against the tide engulfing Stephen Sommers’ 2004 film. He simply states at the end of his review, ‘Van...

Lay down your pitchforks. Extinguish your torches. José Padilha’s RoboCop reboot is most definitely not the disaster we expected (and perhaps even hoped for). A philosophical twist on the original story...

Welcome to By The Book. Every fortnight, we’ll compare a book with its visual adaptation. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these...

I, Frankenstein is one-part Mary Shelley to three thousand parts "makers of the Underworld quadrilogy". Apart from Frankenstein's Monster – here named Adam and unbelievably ripped for a quasi-zombie –...