The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

Nan
0h 45m
2002
7.7 /10 (10)

Overview

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

Country : United States of America
Languages : English
Released Date: 2002-11-01

Top Billed Cast

David J. Skal

Host - Self

Rudy Behlmer

Self

Sara Karloff

Self

Bob Madison

Self

Rick Baker

Self

Donald F. Glut

Self

Ivan Butler

Self

Jan-Christopher Horak

Self

Bill Condon

Self

Richard Gordon

Self

Gregory W. Mank

Self

Paul M. Jensen

Self

Boris Karloff

Self (archive footage)

Dwight David Frye

Self

Similar Movies

poster
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
1983-06-08 0

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations
2010-11-16 0

Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1924 comedy feature Sherlock Jr. was f ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021-05-07 7.862

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Casablanca revisitada
1992-01-01 0

Casablanca revisitada

A lyrical and nostalgic analysis of how Casablanca, the mythical film directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942, has influenced both film history and pop culture. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations
2011-07-12 0

A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations
2010-11-16 0

Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1923 comedy feature Three Ages was fil ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019-01-30 6.8

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
2019-10-25 6.8

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories were larger than life, as were the venues designed to ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
The Lot of Fun: Hollywood’s Fun Factory
2014-05-29 7

The Lot of Fun: Hollywood’s Fun Factory

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25 8.5

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thoma ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01 5.7

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Frankenstein Reborn: Behind the Scenes
2005-08-30 2

Frankenstein Reborn: Behind the Scenes

Genre :Documentary
poster
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019-11-26 7.4

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Les dents de la mer: Un succès monstre
2024-12-16 6.25

Les dents de la mer: Un succès monstre

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996-01-01 8.5

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
1999-01-01 7.5

She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'

Documentary about the making of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein." ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Figli del Set
2019-10-17 4

Figli del Set

Genre :Documentary
poster
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
2021-05-27 6.9

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008-05-15 8.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
El joven Berlanga
2022-10-26 6.5

El joven Berlanga

The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valencia in 1921 to his departure to Madrid in 1947 to become a filmmaker. ...
Genre :Documentary

Check These Out

poster
Monkey Business
1931-09-19 6.939

Monkey Business

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Joker
2019-10-01 8.131

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Titanic
1997-11-18 7.9

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi w ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019-07-24 7.426

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the ne ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Oppenheimer
2023-07-19 8.046

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Pulp Fiction
1994-09-10 8.487

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that i ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
The Shawshank Redemption
1994-09-23 8.711

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an a ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
The Truman Show
1998-06-04 8.148

The Truman Show

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
PK
2014-12-18 7.702

PK

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Back to the Future
1985-07-03 8.3

Back to the Future

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Green Book
2018-11-16 8.224

Green Book

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segr ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Interstellar
2014-11-05 8.462

Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Eden Lake
2008-09-12 6.83

Eden Lake

When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize t ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Parasite
2019-05-30 8.497

Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Extraction
2020-04-23 7.304

Extraction

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son. ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Shutter Island
2010-02-14 8.201

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Ex Machina
2015-01-21 7.571

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives a ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021-03-18 8.103

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching thre ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Inception
2010-07-15 8.4

Inception

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inc ...
Genre :Documentary
poster
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020-02-05 6.891

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord. ...
Genre :Documentary