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Lady Frankenstein Builds a Biological Love Machine
Lady Frankenstein is an early-1970s spaghetti horror flick that's all about what happens when you let ladies into the lab. They build the ultimate love machines, combining their favorite male brains with their favorite male bodies. At least that's what Tania, Dr. Frankenstein's daughter, does. She returns home from medical school only to see papa murdered by his monster. Then she falls for this old dude, whose brain is great but whose body isn't as young and bouncy as she'd like. In fact, she'd rather make it with this hot retarded guy who works as their servant. So she hits on a brilliant idea: Why not continue dad's work by killing brain guy and body guy, then combining the best of both? In this scene, we see her raising the brain-transplanted dead and then . . . feeling up the undead. Ladies in the lab make for way better mad science, don't you think? [Lady Frankenstein]
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The "Castle Thunder" Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies
On Friday we told you about the pervasive use of the Wilhelm Scream through movies, tv shows, and video games, but today we bring you something even closer to the hearts of science fiction history: Castle Thunder. It's been used to bring assembled body parts back to life, to send people back to the future, and to herald the ominous approach of spooky evil mad scientists who want to shrink you and your friends down to miniature size. Find out all about this multi-purpose noise below. More »
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Discover Blackenstein's Secret Weakness!
Punches don't stop Blackenstein. Bullets don't stop Blackenstein. The world's crappiest Frankenstein rip-off, from what may be the world's worst blacksploitation film Blackenstein, is an unstoppable juggernaut of asthma and cranial deformity. Even the laws of good storytelling are no match for this undead exhumation of every monster-movie cliche ever, with a blacksploitation gloss on top. Want to see what does stop Blackenstein? (Warning: it's a tad gross.) More »
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Great Zombies Of Science Fiction
When you think zombies, you think weird magic. But really, a lot of the greatest zombies in movies, TV and books have resulted from pure science. Okay, maybe not "hard" science, but at least some kind of scientific process involving lab coats. We list the greatest zombies of science, below the fold. More »
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Del Toro's Frankenstein Won't Be Alone
Morning spoilers brings entertainment secrets to ADD-sufferers everywhere. We boil down the juiciest bits about upcoming storylines and compress them into a super-food that energizes your brain. Click through for Guillermo Del Toro's plans for Bride Of Frankenstein, plus a new alien-invasion movie. More »
Guillermo Del Toro Piecing Together Frankenstein For TV
Guillermo del Toro isn't content enough to sit back on his Pan's Labyrinth earnings and let Hellboy 2: The Golden Army just ride the coattails of the original film into the box office. He's rumbling about a new television version of the mad scientist classic Frankentstein. "The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries," said Del Toro, which is probably the smartest comment we've ever heard about adopting this book into a project. We say, you go, Guillermo. We know you could easily trump that Kenneth Branagh / Robert De Niro version. [MTV Movie Blog]
Guillermo del Toro isn't content enough to sit back on his Pan's Labyrinth earnings and let Hellboy 2: The Golden Army just ride the coattails of the original film into the box office. He's rumbling about a new television version of the mad scientist classic Frankentstein. "The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries," said Del Toro, which is probably the smartest comment we've ever heard about adopting this book into a project. We say, you go, Guillermo. We know you could easily trump that Kenneth Branagh / Robert De Niro version. [MTV Movie Blog]
Everything You Need for a Frankenstein Lab
Oobject has a great gallery of items you might want to put in your mad scientist's lab. The best is this antique spark regulator — simply adjust one of the big brass balls, stick the monster's head in there, and boom! Reanimated dead guy! [Oobject]
Oobject has a great gallery of items you might want to put in your mad scientist's lab. The best is this antique spark regulator — simply adjust one of the big brass balls, stick the monster's head in there, and boom! Reanimated dead guy! [Oobject]
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A Monster Worse Than Virus Zombies
Welcome to Horrorhead, a fortnightly column about the dark, twisted part of science fiction - the part that borders on horror. If you're looking forward to I Am Legend next week, you know it's basically a vampire horror story translated into a microbial scifi nightmare. But what makes I Am Legend scary isn't the spectre of virus-deformed post-humans. It's something more fundamental. More »
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Must See: Bride of Frankenstein
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Date: 1935
Vitals: Dr. Frankenstein's monster is lonely, so the mad doctor builds his green buddy a scary lady friend who rejects him. In the process, the Bride also popularized a bizarre, bullet-fro hairstyle that has become synonymous with sexy female monsters. Fleeing his coiffed babe in despair, the monster befriends a blind pauper, who teaches him to smoke cigars (thus leading to the infamous line, "Smoke good!"). More »
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Must See: Frankenstein
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Frankenstein
Date: 1931
Vitals: In the role that made him a horror movie star of the 1930s, Boris Karloff is both menacing and pathetic as Dr. Frankenstein's monster, a creature cobbled together out of dead parts and given life by the quintessential mad doctor. Based on the book by Mary Shelley that many consider to be the first science fiction novel written in English, the 1931 Frankenstein is perhaps the most famous film version. More »
