Tag Archives: Frankenstein

The Mad Monster, 1942

This was a bit more enjoyable than the previous George Zucco Poverty Row picture, Dead Men Walk. Where the previous film was a shabby vampire movie, The Mad Monster is a reasonably non-awful mad scientist flick.
What Mad Scientist Dr. Cameron (who does, indeed, have a beautiful daughter) has done is theorized that animal blood [...]

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948

Arguably, this is it — the very best Abbott and Costello movie there is. The boys are in top form, and they get to play off a scenario that is not, at least at the time of the making of this film, threadbare. They get an actual story, into which their antics fit [...]