Frankenstein (book and film series): “Mad” science has long been known and accepted as a fringe part of life. It is defined as both the act of “playing God” and using scientific measures to achieve what is typically thought to be supernatural or even divine, or the application of science to weaponry capable of mass destruction. For example, due to their work on the invention of the atomic bomb, scientists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Howard Stark [1], and Felix Hoenikker [2], as well as all other science personnel involved in the Manhattan Project, can be considered mad scientists. This has been contested due to the negative connotation typically associated with the term “mad scientist,” but what is not contested is the identity of the original mad scientist: Victor Frankenstein*. With the Universal series covered, I moved on in this paragraph to Mel Brooks’ parody/tribute Young Frankenstein! This film almost certainly deserves the connection. Lugosi plays Dr. Richard Vollin, a brilliant but retired surgeon that is obsessed with everything Edgar Allen Poe, including a basement full of various torture instruments straight out of his stories. When Dr. Vollin performs an emergency surgery on famous dancer, Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware), he becomes infatuated with her; he will do anything to prevent her upcoming marriage to her fiancé Jerry (Lester Matthews) and he begins to enact a fiendish plan to get revenge on the unsuspecting young woman. In Branagh's 1994 version of the film, it is Dr. Waldman who teaches Victor how to re-animate dead tissue. In both films, he is killed by the monster. In the 1931 film, he is killed by the recently "born" monster. In Branagh's film, he and Victor are administering vaccines to the local townspeople, one of whom resists, and kills Dr. Waldman, and is later hanged for it. Victor uses the killer's body for the creature, and Waldman's brain.

The 18th century gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that in some quarters was opposed to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati. On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe. In 1826 King Ludwig I moved the university to the capital Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The modern successor of Bavaria's oldest university is the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management (founded in 1989 as part of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), one of Germany's foremost business schools. Henry could not deal with his failure and came to realize that all he accomplished was the creation of a monster. He suffered a mental breakdown and passed out in his laboratory. His family brought him home and he spent the next several days convalescing. Professor Waldman elected to remain behind at the laboratory to watch over the monster. Henry put all thoughts of his work behind him and concentrated on his pending marriage to Elizabeth. Modern sources list the following additional credits: Elec eff Raymond Lindsay; Elec Frank Graves; Spec eff John Fulton ; Tech adv Dr. Cecil Reynolds; Mus Bernhard Kaun and Giuseppe Becce; Mus dir David Broekman. Modern sources include in the cast Pauline Moore ( Bridesmaid), Ted Billings ( Villager), Inez Palange ( Village lady), Paul Panzer ( Mourner), Cecil Reynolds ( Waldman's secretary), and note that Francis Ford also played a villager and medical school doctor. Some modern sources note that the set design of the windmill sequence was inspired by a building in Los Angeles that housed a local bakery, Van de Kamp, which displayed a large windmill as its corporate logo. Actor Colin Clive later admitted in an interview that he hated doing horror movies and was not particularly fond of his work in the Frankenstein films.The Illuminati movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830), who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment. Writers at the time, such as Seth Payson, believed the movement represented a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of European states. [2] Some writers, such as Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his 1801 book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France. [3] The beauty of this simplistic fairy-tale story, is in showing the Monster growing up in familiar human terms and only being a monster because society created him. In his innocence he’s like a baby reaching out for the sunlight filtering through the skylight, then he’s the adventurous child throwing flowers into the lake and in his mistaken notion tossing the girl he thinks is also a flower into the lake, and finally he’s misunderstood by the same society who created him and is labeled as a savage killer. In the second story, based on a Tolstoy story, The Wurdulak, it is 19th Century Russia, Vladimir Durfe (Mark Damon), a nobleman finds a decapitated corpse with a knife in its chest. He removes the blade and finds lodging for the night. Durfe is approached by Giorgio (Glauco Onorato) who tells him that the blade that he found belongs to his father and he hasn’t been seen for five days. Giorgio offers to take Durfe home with him and introduces him to his family. In its first several decades, the university grew rapidly, opening colleges not only for philosophers from the realist and nominalist schools, but also for poor students wishing to study the liberal arts. Among its most famous instructors in the late 15th century were the poet Conrad Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian Johannes Thurmair (also known as “Johannes Aventinus”).

The rub comes though with the evil influence of Ygor who plays an odd trumpet looking instrument, and it has a hypnotic effect on the creature. Apparently revenge is Ygor’s motive and he wants to kill the men that were responsible for sending him to the gallows. This time around the monster does not speak; this was on Karloff’s insistence, and the creature is not as sympathetic as the last time we saw him. The studios forced James Whale to end Frankenstein on a happy note assuring us that Henry survived his fall and would marry Elizabeth. Originally, the movie ended with the scene of the burning windmill. Later releases show a scene with the Baron happily drinking a toast to the coming wedding once his son recovers. Of course, all of this went to pot after the monster blew up Frankenstein's laboratory in The Bride of Frankenstein. Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · NYT · AP · TWL The plot is very simple and in its basic structure is a love story; in 1921 an Egyptian expedition uncovers the tomb of Im-ho-tep, a man that was buried alive because he was trying to raise his dead lover, the princess Ankh-es-en-amon ( Zita Johann). Buried with Im-ho-tep was the Scroll of Thoth which promises to resurrect the dead and reunite the separated lovers. Ten years later, Im-ho-tem is wandering Cairo as a modern day Egyptian, Ardath Bey (Karloff); he is looking for the reappearance of his lost love and he meets Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), a woman that bears a striking resemblance to Ankh-es-en-amon. Ardath Bey believes that Grosvenor is the princess reborn again and he plans to kill her and mummify her, thus reclaiming his long lost love. While under a trance, Grosvenor remembers her past life and prays to a statue of the goddess Isis; the statue comes to life and emits a powerful beam that destroys the Scroll of Thoth and hereby also renders The Mummy to a heap of dust. The character of Henry Frankenstein was created by director James Whale and screenplay writesr Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh based on a character originally developed by author Mary Shelley.Director James Whale and Karloff would once again team up in Universal’s production of The Old Dark House. Based on the novel, Benighted (1927) by J. B. Priestley, this early pre-code production features a group of five stranded travelers in Wales as they are forced to stay the night at the house of their hosts, the extremely odd Femm family. Frankenstein Village Frankenstein Village is a small town located in Switzerland. It is near the town of Reigelberg and is a three day journey by horse to the village of Vasaria. [1] The village was named after the noble Frankenstein family, who has maintained a strong presence in the region for more than seven-hundred years. The film opens on a storm night as Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of the Promethus Unbound, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley tells her audience that the monster was not destroyed and that there is more to tell; the scene shifts to the end of the 1931 film and continues from there. Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090616114714/http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/6/14/guillermo-del-toro-casts-doug-jones-in-frankenstein.html to http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/6/14/guillermo-del-toro-casts-doug-jones-in-frankenstein.html

They visit Doctor Waldman's office. Waldman fears that Henry's ambition has driven him towards obsession. He recalls his work at the university, citing that Henry demanded human bodies for his experiments, and that he was not particular where the bodies came from. Elizabeth grows more concerned and asks Waldman to come with them to see Henry. In its first several decades, the university grew rapidly, opening colleges not only for philosophers from the realist and nominalist schools, but also for poor students wishing to study the liberal arts. Among its most famous instructors in the late 15th century were the poet Conrad Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian Johannes Thurmair (also known as "Johannes Aventinus"). The 18th century gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that in some quarters was opposed to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati. On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe. In 1826 King Ludwig I moved the university to the capital Munich ( Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The modern successor of Bavaria's oldest university is the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management (founded in 1989 as part of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), one of Germany's foremost business schools.I almost considered starting a new thread for this but decided not to. Anyways something that Ive only realized in maybe the past 10 years of rewatching these films is that despite what the video covers or books or whatever wanna say Henry is never actually referred to as DOCTOR Frankenstein in either of the first two films. Yes some of the sequels may reference him as Dr. Frankenstein (when it’s not Ludwig they’re referencing) but not in the two Whale films. Hell I don’t even think Son does. Ygor says Wolf is a ‘doctor like your father’ but I don’t seem to recall Dr. Frankenstein being used to reference Wolf or Henry (sorry, Heinrich) in that film. Correct me if I’m wrong. In the 1931 film version of Frankenstein, Dr. Waldman was a professor of anatomical studies at Goldstadt Medical College. Waldman had been Henry Frankenstein's favorite teacher during the aspiring young scientist's time as a student there. Although Waldman had much respect for Henry's brilliance, he became increasingly disturbed when Henry began demanding fresh bodies for his experiments in chemical galvanism and electro- biology: bodies that were not those of cats and dogs, but human beings. Eventually, the increasingly ambitious Henry left the college to pursue his researches in private. This film indicates that the Frankenstein watchtower is located in Goldstadt, but future films place the watchtower adjacent to Castle Frankenstein in Frankenstein Village.