#baron henry von frankenstein

[multifandomplushie]

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Wanted to make something Frosty the Snowman-related for the season and, since I didn’t make anything particular for the Halloween, decided to throw in some Mad Mad Mad Monsters as well, cause’ I had this crossover art idea for a while now.

[yourverybestghoulfriend]

Remembering Boris Karloff on his birthday today.

(November 23, 1887-February 2, 1969)

Horror Credits Include: The Monster in Frankenstein (1931) Imhotep in The Mummy (1932) Hjalmar in The Black Cat (1934) The Monster in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Edmond Bateman in The Raven (1935) John Elman in The Walking Dead (1936) The Monster in Son of Frankenstein (1939) Doctor Gustav Niemann in House of Frankenstein (1944) Dr, Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde in Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Dr. Scarabus in The Raven (1963) Gorca in Black Sabbath (1963. Segment: "I Wurdalak") Hinchley in The Comedy of Terrors (1963) Nahu, Witley in Die, Monster, Die! (1965) Baron Boris von Frankenstein in Mad Monster Party? (1967. Voice) Franz Badulescu in Cauldron of Blood (1968)

[free-for-all-fics]

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition

Obscure Characters I love for some reason. (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why.

A

Abraham Alastor/Anthony Clarke (Dark Pictures Little Hope)

Adam (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Adam (Hallmark Frankenstein 2004)

Al Capone (Night at the Museum)

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Alec Fell (Nancy Drew, The Silent Spy)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Amphibian Man/The Asset (Shape of Water)

Anthony Walsh (Blood Fest)

Anton Herzen (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Ardeth Bay (Mummy series)

Armand (Queen of the Damned 2002)

Armando Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean 5)

B

Barnaby (Sabrina Down Under)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Baron Meinster (Brides of Dracula)

Beast/Hank McCoy (X-Men, Kelsey Grammer version)

Beast/Prince (Beauty and the Beast 2014)

Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Bernard the elf (Santa Clause series)

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Blade (Puppetmaster series)

Bughuul (Sinister 1 and 2)

C

Caliban/John Clare (Penny Dreadful)

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan 2003)

Cedric Brown (Nanny McPhee)

Christian Thompson (Devil Wears Prada)

Colonel William Tavington (The Patriot)

Cornelis Sandvoort (Tulip Fever)

Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire (DC comics/Teen Titans)

D

Daniel Le Domas (Ready Or Not)

Death (Final Destination series)

Dimitri Allen (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future)

Dimitri Denatos (Mom’s Got a Date With a Vampire)

Dustfinger (Inkheart)

Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)

Dr. Gregory Butler (Happy Death Day 1 & 2)

Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)

Driller Killer (Slumber Party Massacre 2)

E

Edward Gracey (Haunted Mansion 2003) 

Edward Mordrake (Urban Legend/American Horror Story Asylum)

Edward/Eddie “Tex” Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3)

Elemer of the Briar (Elden Ring)

Erik Carriere (Phantom of the Opera 1990)

Ethan (Pilgrim 2019)

F

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)

Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Fegan Floop (Spy Kids trilogy)

Fox Mask/Tom (You’re next)

G

George Knightley (Emma)

Ghost/Mitch (Haunt 2019)

Godskin Apostle (Elden Ring)

Godwyn the Golden (Elden Ring)

Gold Watchers (Dark Deception)

Greg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

Grim Matchstick (Cuphead)

Gurranq Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring)

H

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (Broadway, Rob Evan version)

Henry Sturges (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Hugh Crain (Haunting of Hill House, the book and 1963 film. Not the Flanagan show or 1999 movie remake)

Hugo Butterly (Nancy Drew, Danger by Design)

I

Ingemar (Midsommar)

J

Jack Ferriman (Ghost Ship)

Jack Worthing/Uncle Jack (We Happy Few)

Jafar (Once Upon a Time, not the Wonderland spin-off)

Jan Valek (John Carpenter’s Vampires)

Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough/Alex (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Arkhamverse! Video Games)

Jester (Puppetmaster series)

John (He’s Out There)

Joseph “Joey” Mallone (Blackwell series)

Juan (The Forever Purge)

Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood (Elden Ring)

K

Kalabar (Halloweentown)

Kenneth Haight (Elden Ring)

Killer Moth/Drury Walker (Teen Titans)

King Paimon (Hereditary)

L

Lamb Mask/Craig (You’re next)

Lamplighter (The Boys)

Launder Man (Crypt TV)

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon (Saw series)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods)

Lucifer (Devil’s Carnival 1 & 2)

M

Magic Mirror (Snow White 1937/Shrek)

Man in the Mask (The Strangers)

Manon (The Craft)

Man-Thing (Marvel’s Werewolf By Night)

Marco Polo/Merman (Crypt TV)

Marcus Corvinus (Underworld series)

Markus Boehm (Nancy Drew, the Captive Curse)

Mephistopheles (Faust’s Albtraum)

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)

Miquella (Elden Ring)

Mirror Man (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Mr. Crow/Aldous Vanderboom (Rusty Lake series)

Mr. Le Bail (Ready Or Not)

Mr. Slausen (Tourist Trap)

N

Nigel Billingsley (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Night’s Cavalry (Elden Ring)

Nothing (The Night House)

P

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pierre Despereaux (Psych)

Prince Anton Voytek (Vampire 1974)

Prince Escalus (Romeo and Juliet, no particular adaptation)

Prince Quartus (Stardust)

Prince Septimus (Stardust)

Professor Petrie/Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera 1962)

Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw, the book and maybe some other adaptations. Not the Bly Manor Flanagan show.)

R

Reese Kelly (Scarlet Hollow)

Rene Belloq (Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Roland Voight (Hellraiser 2022)

Ronin (Star Trek)

Rorschach (Watchmen)

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rusty Nail (Joyride trilogy)

S

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Sam Wayne (Scarlet Hollow)

Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

Simon Jarrett (SOMA)

Sir Lancelot (Night at the Museum 3)

Sportacus (LazyTown)

Starscourge Radahn (Elden Ring)

STEM (Upgrade)

Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)

T

Thantos DuBaer (Twitches 1 and 2)

The Auditor (Hellraiser: Judgment)

The Babadook (The Babadook)

The Black Knight Ghost (Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed)

The Curator (Dark Pictures Anthology)

The Designer (Devil’s Carnival 2)

The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest/Professor Joel Barash/Steven Verdel (Wishmaster series)

The Faun (Pan’s Labyrinth)

The Fox (The Little Prince 1974)

The Jester (The Jester, A Short Horror Film series)

The Kinderfänger (Crypt TV)

The Knight/Tarhos Kovács (Dead by Daylight)

The Look-See (Crypt TV)

The Man (Carnival of Souls)

The Merman (Cabin In The Woods)

The Metal Killer (Stage Fright 2014)

The Mirror (Oculus)

The Narrator (Stanley Parable)

The Other (Hellfest)

The Phantom (Phantom Manor)

The Projectionist (Pearl)

The T-1000/Cop (Terminator 2, Terminator Genisys)

The Tall Man/The Entity (It Follows)

The Thing (The Thing 1982)

The Torn Prince/Royce Clayton (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

The Torso/James “Jimmy” Gambino (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

Thomas Alexander “Alex” Upton (TAU)

Tiger Mask/Dave (You’re Next)

Tommy Ross (Carrie, 1976)

V

Valak (The Conjuring)

Valdack and his real world counterpart (Black Mirror)

Van Pelt (Jumanji 2)

Venable (Wrong Turn 2021)

Viktor (Underworld series)

Viktor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale (Once Upon a Time)

Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing 2004)

W

Wade Thornton (Nancy Drew, Ghost of Thornton Hall)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts (The Princess Bride)

Wildwind/Dark Skull, Stormy Weathers, and Lightning Strikes (Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire)

“William”/The Headless Figure (Crypt TV)

William "Billy" Butcherson (Hocus Pocus 1 and 2)

X

Xenan the Centaur (Xena Warrior Princess)

[presidentpoppy]

That’s his emotional support twink

[trashcanalienist]

Okay so I was joking about Henry because obviously the Frankenstein movies take place in the modern day, but with 1818 as the date of death for both Victor and his Creature and Victor only a young man at the time, there's no issue at all with Imaginos's 1804 birth. A distant cousin, perhaps? Since the entire Frankenstein family was either killed by the Creature or succumbed to grief or illness, the noble title previously held by Victor's father would pass to the closest living male relative...Imaginos.

Or, as in I Am The One You Warned Me Of, perhaps Desdenova simply uses his abilities to take the place of a real "Baron Von Frankenstein". Could be either, the lyrics are vague about that, there's some part of "Imagine he was me, and I was called Frankenstein" that implies that he ISN'T, but it's also "Imagine" so it could very well just be "Imaginos", and of course if the Baron OWNS the "starry wisdom" then...dаmn it man, release the Soft Doctrines already

Broke: The Siege And Investiture Of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Weisseria is somewhat literal and the name of Frankenstein shows the way the townspeople see Imaginos/Desdenova as a monster

Woke: Siege is mostly metaphorical and the name "Frankenstein" represents the half-divine abomination Les Invisibles have through cosmic aberration manipulated the youth Imaginos into becoming as their servant

Bespoke: Siege is entirely literal and Imaginos is a direct relative, albeit one an ocean away by birth, of the noble and tragedized Frankenstein family and of my darling Heinrich Von Frankenstein

[lostitgeorgemeade]

Frankenstein

Themes: individual responsibility, social responsibility

In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a brilliant student, and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth, an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Victor von Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university, and he promises to get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval, who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises him that he should not try this experiment, since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed of parts of deceased people. However, he realises that his experiment is a mistake and he abandons the Creature, expecting that it will die alone. However the Creature survives and learns how to read and write, but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The Creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he loves.

[lovelyselfshipper]

Ever Expanding List of My F/Os

Romantic/Sexual:

*Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (MCU & comics) {romantic & sexual} - my wife

*Any character played by Elizabeth Olsen.

*Galadriel (LOTR) {romantic & sexual} - my wife

*Any character played by Cate Blanchett.

*Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh from his movie version & David Suchet from Agatha Christie’s Poirot respectively) {romantic & sexual}

*John Manly (Disney’s Black Beauty) {romantic & sexual}

*Any character played by Iain Glen.

*Ser Jorah Mormont of Bear Island (Game of Thrones) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Sir Richard Carlisle (Downton Abbey) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin (Star Wars) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*any character played by Peter Cushing.

*Victor Allium Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein (2015)) {romantic & sexual} - my husband, my reason for life

*Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov (The Last Station (2009)) {romantic} - my husband

*Sheriff Woody (from the Toy Story franchise) {romantic} - my husband

*Erik Carrière (The Phantom of the Opera (1990) mini-series) - my husband

*Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (X-Men franchise) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Professor Charles Xavier/Professor X (X-Men franchise) {romantic & sexual} - my husband, my dearest one, my reason for life

*Thomas Langlois ”Tom” Lefroy (Becoming Jane) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*William “Bill” Denbrough (IT: Chapter Two) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek TNG) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Mr Tumnus (The Chronicles of Narnia) {romantic}

*Lt. Archie Hicox (Inglorious Basterds) {romantic & sexual}

*Any character played by James McAvoy ever.

*Khal Drogo (Game of Thrones) {romantic & sexual} - my sun and stars

*Deanna Troi (Star Trek TNG) {romantic & sexual} - my imzadi/wife

*Willy Wonka (1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Bilbo Baggins (Tolkien’s works) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Dr. Baron Frederick von Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein (1974)) {romantic & sexual}

*Sigerson Holmes (The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975)) {romantic & sexual}

*Leo Bloom (The Producers (1967)) {romantic & sexual}

*Spock Talok (Star Trek TOS & AOS) {romantic & sexual} - my t’hy’la/husband

*Han Solo (Star Wars) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Henry Turner (Regarding Henry) {romantic & sexual}

*Dr. Norman Spencer (What Lies Beneath) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Any character played by Harrison Ford ever.

*Erik Claudin (The Phantom of the Opera novel) {romantic & sexual}

*Morticia & Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) {romantic & sexual}

*Count Béla Dracula (Dracula (1931)) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Basil Blossom of Baker Street (The Great Mouse Detective movie/Basil of Baker Street book series) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Dr. Sheldon Cooper (TBBT) - my husband {romantic}

*Freddy Eynsford-Hill (My Fair Lady 1964) {romantic & sexual}

*Orville Miller (Catlow) {romantic & sexual}

*Howard Stark (MCU) {romantic & sexual} my husband

*Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek AOS) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Star Trek TOS & AOS) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Sherlock Holmes (RItchieverse) {romantic & sometimes sexual} - my husband

*Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon) {romantic} - my husband

*Éomer of Rohan (LOTR) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Thor (MCU; when I’m not shipping myself with Loki) {romantic & sexual}

*James Moriarty (Guard Me Sherlock! Otome) {romantic & sexual}

*Loki (MCU; when I’m not shipping myself with Thor) {romantic & sexual}

*Anna of Arendelle (Disney’s Frozen franchise) {romantic & sexual} - my wife

*Captain James “Jas” Hook (Peter Pan book/Disney Peter Pan movies & Disney’s Pirate Fairy movie/1991 Hook movie/2003 Peter Pan movie) {romantic & sexual}

*Elizabeth Bennet (P&P 2005 & novel) {romantic & sexual}

*Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. (the Indiana Jones franchise) {romantic & sexual} - my husband, my soulmate

*John H Watson (Guard Me Sherlock! Otome) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Star Trek AOS) {romantic & sexual}

*Landonis Balthazar “Lando” Calrissian (Star Wars) {romantic & sexual}

*Danny Valdessecchi (Bind Dating (2006) {romantic & sexual}

*Sherlock Holmes (BBC) {romantic & sometimes sexual} - my husband

*Doctor Stephen Strange (MCU & comics) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Fantastic Four 2005) {romantic & sexual}

*Sherlock Holmes (Granada) - my husband

*Ariel (TLM) {romantic & sexual} - my wife

*Elizabeth Swann (POTC) {romantic & sexual} - my wife

*Commodore James Norrington (POTC) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Captain Jack Sparrow (POTC) {romantic & sexual}

*Grinch (The Grinch 2018) {romantic & sexual}

*Don Juan DeMarco {romantic & sexual}

*Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park) {romantic & sexual}

*Vision (MCU) {romantic & sexual}

*any character played by Paul Bettany

*Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) {romantic & sexual}

*Lucius Malfoy (HP franchise) - my husband

*Severus Snape (HP franchise) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*King Thranduil of Mirkwood (Tolkien’s works) {romantic & sexual} - my husband

*Belle (1991 BatB) {romantic & sexual}

*Gaston (BatB) {romantic & sexual}

*Luna Lovegood (HP franchise) {romantic & sexual}

*Any character played by Johnny Depp (except for his character in Black Mass & his character in Murder on the Orient Express (2022)) {romantic & sexual}

*Smaug (The Hobbit) {romantic & sexual}

*any character played by Benedict Cumberbatch

*King Henry V (Shakespeare’s Henry V) {romantic & sexual}

*Sir Thomas Sharpe (Crimson Peak) {romantic & sexual}

*Any characters played by Tom Hiddleston {romantic & sexual}

*Any characters played by Kenneth Branagh {romantic & sexual}

Familial:

*Pietro Maximoff (MCU & comics) - my brother-in-law

*Billy & Tommy Maximoff (MCU & comics) - my stepsons

*Mortica & Gomez Addams (The Addams Family tv show) - my parents

*Pugsley Addams (The Addams Family tv show) - my younger brother

*Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family tv show) - my little sister

*Tony Stark (MCU) - my stepson

*Lucille Sharpe (Crinson Peak) - my sister-in-law

*Queen Elsa of Arendelle (Frozen franchise) - ny sister-in-law

*Weatherby Swann (POTC)

*Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. (Indiana Jones franchise) - my father-in-law

*Xenophilius Lovegood (HP franchise) - my father-in-law

*Maurice (1991 BatB) - my father-in-law

*Draco Malfoy (HP franchise) - my stepson

*Joanna McCoy (Star Trek TOS & AOS) - my daughter-in-law

*Loki (when shipping myself with Thor), Odin, and Frigga (MCU) - my sibling-in-law, father-in-law, and mother-in-law

*Thor (when shipping myself with Loki), Odin, and Frigga (MCU) - my brother-in-law, father-in-law, and mother-in-law

*Kelly Malcom and the other 2 Makcom children (Jurassic Park franchise) - my stepchildren

*King Trition; Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, and Andrina (TOM) - my father-in-law and sisters-in-law

*Richard and Susan Reeds (Fantastic Four 2005) - my brother-in-law and sister-in-law

*Sam Kirk (Star Trek AOS) - my brother-in-law

*Faramir & Eowyn (LOTR) - my brother-in-law and sister-in-law

*Mr. and Mrs. Bennett (P&P 2005) - my parents-in-law

*Charles & Jane Bingley (P&P 2005) - my brither-in-law and sister-in-law

*Lydia, Kitty, and Mary (P&P 2005) - my sisters-in-law

*Legolas Greenleaf (Tolkien’s works) - my stepson

*Rachel Turner (Regarding Henry) - my stepdaughter

[lostitmantasvenskunas]

Frankenstein

In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a barilliant student, and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth, an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Victor von Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university, and he promises to get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval, who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises him that he should not try this experiment, since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed of parts of deceased people. However, he realizes that his experiment is a mistake and he abandons the Creature, expecting that it will die alone. However the Creature survives and learns how to read and write, but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The Creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he loves.

[scifihorroradventure]

SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), son of Henry Frankenstein, returns to his home town along with his wife Elsa (Josephine Hutchinson) and son Peter (Donnie Dunagan), a fact which understandably upsets the citizens of the nearby village. As the family moves into the old Frankenstein castle, Wolf is given old research papers from his father. Visiting his father's old laboratory after its destruction at the hands of the Monster, Wolf encounters the deformed Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a murderous criminal who hates those in the village who tried to have him hanged. But Ygor is not alone, as he reveals to Wolf the still-living body of the Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff)! Though initially taken aback Wolf is eventually talked into rebuilding the laboratory and bringing the Monster back to full health by Ygor. But once this is done, Ygor merely uses the Monster to exact his revenge on his would-be executors. Angered by more death in their village, the citizens storm Castle Frankenstein, demanding justice, even as Wolf attempts to put an end to Ygor and the Monster's rampage...

After such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein is unfortunately a disjointed, nearly boring mess. The first in the series to not have James Whale and Carl Laemmle Jr. involved, Rowland Lee takes over both of their positions, while Wyllis Cooper handles the writing alone, as opposed to the previous films' teams. Unfortunately, this new duo does not prove to be to the movie's benefit, as basic story elements and character motivations either make no sense or take far too long to happen. Wolf von Frankenstein returns to his family's castle outside of... Frankenstein (apparently Cooper was unaware or had forgotten that the village's name had been Goldstadt in both previous films) and at first tries to make amends between his family and the villagers, but then later quickly laughs off their fearful history with his father and the Monster. The men who convicted Ygor and sent him to the hangman's noose start showing up dead, but instead of suspecting Ygor seeking revenge, the people of the village immediately blame Wolf. There are several scenes of Wolf and Inspector Krogh discussing the villagers and their distrust of the Frankenstein name and legacy, which make for nice character moments but ultimately feel very repetitive and mostly unnecessary. It is said that much of the script was written on the fly, just before shooting the respective scene, and it sadly shows. There's also the oddity that we are often shown the massive sets (especially in Castle Frankenstein) in wide, far away shots... revealing that the sets haven't been furnished at all, showing us huge, empty walls. While this obviously doesn't affect the story, it's still strange to see such enormous sets without any furniture or paintings or anything to communicate "people live here." Wolf and Elsa sit at their dinner table with nothing around them at all, and on the rare occasion we do see a properly furnished set (the library, Peter's room), we don't spend very much time there.

Basil Rathbone, best known as Sherlock Holmes, plays Wolf von Frankenstein, the son of the infamous doctor from the first two films. Sadly, the Baron is as uneven as the rest of the film. Rathbone plays him very well, appropriately nervous and eccentric, but nothing he does makes any sense. He has no interest in continuing Henry's work, but is talked into reviving the Monster by Ygor stupidly easily. His motivation essentially boils down to:

Wolf: "I don't want to make a monster or continue my father's work!" Ygor: "Yes you do." Wolf: "Yeah, you're right."

Honestly, even Frederick needed more convincing in Young Frankenstein. Just why Wolf allows Ygor to push him around is never explained, either. Perhaps if Ygor had something to blackmail him with (maybe Wolf had been keeping his identity as a Frankenstein secret and Ygor threatened to tell the town) it could've worked, but as it is, it just sort of... happens, with the brilliant, mostly respected scientist listening to the creepy deformed criminal for no real reason. Yes, Wolf wants to prove to the world that his father wasn’t an evil madman, but following the instructions of an unhinged killer is likely not the best way to go about it. Ygor doesn't even entice him into it, as Dr. Pretorius had done with Henry in Bride of Frankenstein. With Ygor, Bela Lugosi finds his most iconic role, second only to Count Dracula himself. A bizzare, graverobbing outcast, the people of Frankenstein/Goldstadt had attempted to execute Ygor for his crimes, only for the hanging to fail and leave him deformed (the moment where he knocks on the bone in his neck is effectively unsettling). As Ygor, Lugosi is perfectly creepy and bitter, having come to use the Monster as his weapon to exact revenge on those who had attempted to kill him. He's a great villain and Lugosi definitely deserves the praise he received for the role.

If there's one complaint to be had about Ygor, it's that he's such a well done villain and takes up such a large part of the movie that the Frankenstein Monster himself feels rather shoehorned in and almost unnecessary in his own film. Boris Karloff was jealous of the praise Bela Lugosi received as he himself got very little, but honestly, it's not hard to see why. It takes forever for the Monster to finally appear and when he does, for the most part he's either sleeping or standing there staring at Wolf and Ygor. Karloff does have a few brilliant moments - The first real scene with the Monster, where he first encounters Wolf and stares at himself in the mirror, seemingly confused and saddened by being alive once again, is a great sequence. But bits like this are way too few and far between. For some reason, the Monster is mute again, with his ability to speak completely ignored or forgotten. Wolf mentions that the Monster is not "well in the head," but this is never expounded upon. Does the Monster have amnesia, thus forgetting his time with Henry, the Bride, and learning to speak? Or does he remember everything, but suffered an injury to the head in the destruction of the laboratory that renders him no longer able to speak, unable to vocalize his misery at having failed to die in the last movie? Thanks to the shoddy writing, we will never know. Equally strange is the lack of any resolution as to what happened to the Bride of Frankenstein and why the Monster survived while she did not, despite most of the monster action happening in the same laboratory as Bride and the fact that, theoretically, she should be just as powerful as he is. And while Jack Pierce's prosthetic makeup looks as good as ever, the decision to cover the Monster in a fur poncho is an odd one, giving him the look of an "expensive head, cheap body" type monster, such as Ro-Man from Robot Monster.

While not necessarily a bad film, Son of Frankenstein is incredibly lackluster compared to its predecessors, though it did leave its own mark on the Frankenstein franchise and horror as a whole. Over the years, the character of Ygor would become blurred and often combined with Fritz from the original Frankenstein, becoming a hybrid, often Peter Lorre-sounding hunchbacked Ygor that never really existed. This would also mark the last time Boris Karloff would play the iconic role, leaving Lon Chaney Jr. to pick up the bolts and stitches in The Ghost of Frankenstein three years later.

Rating: ★★ ½

Cast: Basil Rathbone ... Baron Wolf von Frankenstein Bela Lugosi ... Ygor Lionel Atwill ... Inspector Krogh Boris Karloff ... The Frankenstein Monster Josephine Hutchinson ... Elsa von Frankenstein Edgar Norton ... Thomas Benson Emma Dunn ... Amelia Donnie Dunagan ... Peter von Frankenstein

Director: Rowland V. Lee. Producer: Rowland V. Lee. Writer: Wyllis Cooper (screenplay) and Mary Shelley (original "Frankenstein" novel). Music: Frank Skinner. Special Effects: John P. Fulton (uncredited) and Jack P. Pierce (uncredited makeup artist).

[lifeoutofdeath-blog]

NAME OF YOUR MUSE: Victor Heinrich Von Frankenstein

ONE PICTURE YOU LIKE BEST OF YOUR MUSE: 

TWO HEADCANONS YOU HAVE FOR YOUR MUSE THAT YOU NEVER TOLD ANYONE:

Victor has a very busy mind and has the voices of the peolpe he believe he killed in his head  as well as his own and he never told anyone about them because when he had attempted to do so he was told not to be quite. the way he handles this is to draw out his thoughts and make notes around them to try and get them out of his mind just for some pace in his life. 

He doesn’t actaully hate the cold. Not fully he just hate the feeling of spending to long in it. The numbness that comes with the cld so he keeps his house warm and always has the fire bruning, though he does have a freak of the snow.

THREE THINGS THAT YOUR MUSE LIKES DOING IN THEIR FREE TIME

Reading. It could be any book and victor will just pick it up and read for a whole days at a time.

He actually likes to cook a lot which not a lot of peolpe know about because he doesn’t make it well known about himself but he love to cook for the peolpe he cares about.

Drawing he like to sit in the most quiet part of his house and just draw away. Sometimes it can been from where he has traveled to or of the peolpe he loves. 

SEVEN PEOPLE THAT YOUR MUSE LOVES/LIKES:  

Victor Frankenstein

Henry Clerval

William Frankenstein

Herny Frankenstein

Caroline Frankenstein

Baron Alphonse Frankenstein

THINGS YOUR MUSE REGRETS:

Taking his brother’s life.

making a man that killed half his family and took the peolpe he cared for.

Losing Elizabeth and lying to her. 

FEARS YOUR MUSE HAS:

That he will never be good enough for his family. 

the snow and all the bad memories it brings with it

repeating his past again. He knows how wrong he was to and make life out of death.

The fear of being close to someone again. Letting someone into his let said world again because he doesn’t want to lose them.

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Peanut Dracolich watches Horror: Frankenstein (1931)

A classic monster film that I had never before yesterday (when I actually watched it) seen. I have also reverted to stream of thought while watching so... erm enjoy.

I like the little opening bit where they give you the warning about how scary the film is. It's charming somehow. As for the actual start. The opening credits has creepy eyes and creepy music, with creepy Count Orlaf style face in the background. Nice and creepy... unfortunately you're making me expect a very different movie monster.

And then there's a funeral, with our Doctor and his hunchbacked assistant watching it. I feel sorry for the gravedigger who puts that work (shown in part) into burying the dead gentleman, when these two knaves are just going to undo it. Bad knaves.

"His leg is broken. His brain is useless. We must find another brain!" The acting is... different from in modern films, not bad, not better, but it just feels different; in many ways more attention grabbing with  certain element of the unreal to it.

We get some comedy antics from the hunchback... who drops the normal brain when he hits something and makes a noise that scares him (he is stealing a brain from a medical college being frightened is acceptable) and grabs the abnormal brain instead. This is... This worries me. Not because I find it horror inducing, but because it misses much of the beauty of the book.

We meet Elizabeth and... Victor? Victor isn't Frankenstein? What? They're consolidating book elements, speeding up the timeline. This is an acceptable divergence, but I instinctively don't like this Victor as a change. I will try, and in fact am actively already trying, not to let 'they changed it now it sucks' color things too much, but... Thing after thing is setting it off. This is making me think as much of the Reanimator, itself a retelling of Frankenstein, as Frankenstein. It's not really an adaptation of the book so much as another story inspired by it. And I must watch and judge it as such.

Still it is a charming film, despite these things I've stated. It is... slower paced (despite shorter length) and less hectic than I am used to, leaving it a bit less gripping than say Covenant or Alien, but simultaneously I am enjoying it even as I allow myself to be in part pulled out by writing this.

We see the covered face of Frankenstein's monster and he begins to talk about the glory of the brain of a dead man living again in the body that he has made... and it makes me want a very different story about body disphoria, and the feelings of one who has been brought back in a different, new body. I'm sure there are such stories now.

Still it doesn't feel like this is intended as a horror movie. While there is a certain grim and horrifying aesthetic, there is no sense of building fear, even as the storm builds (which should in a way be in and of itself a building fear). I'm going to say part of the blame falls on me both in the writing of this, and the familiarity with the story (even having never seen the film).

Even so as they gather in Henry Frankenstein's lab there is a certain suspense. Apparently X-Rays, or maybe Gamma Rays, bring life to the dead. Good to know. I will accept this as science fiction because it was the 1930s, I would laugh at this as absurd in something made now.

I actually go silent as the body is raised into the storm. Lightning produces this ray that gives life? Wait, what? I shut off that part of my brain. Because Frankenstein's rejoicing is gripping... even if one might say it was melodramatic, over the top, and hammy, I like it.

Henry's smugness is shattered when his old teacher tells him that it was the criminal's brain that was stolen. It's a beautiful moment as his face changes. And you get a bit of horror as the monster approaches, the sound of footsteps, the look on Henry's face, the way they turn out the light to keep the monster in darkness and then the Monster's face. It's very well done.

We get a nice little bit with the monster being treated like it was mentally stunted and we see that like an inconsiderate college roommate, the monster does not like lights out... Well it doesn't but really we see that fire freaks it the hell out. And what horror we had has been lost for now.

The monster is in the dungeon and Fritz wants to whip it and threaten it with fire. Fritz is a cruel person and the monster is like some child unable to communicate with the humans around him and mistreated by his cruel older brother. I pity the monster. Of course as I write "I pity the monster" he is in the process of killing Fritz off screen and tries to attack Frankenstein and his old teacher when they investigate. Given how Fritz treated him I can't blame the monster. Fritz deserved it.

The old professor wants to murder the monster. Frankenstein lacks the spine to stand on his principles. They open the door armed with a torch and a syringe. It braves the torch but is stabbed cruely from behind, and fights off those who would kill it in an act of instinctual self defense, Henry's life saved when the syringe takes its effect upon the creature.

Victor... WHY IS HE NAMED VICTOR AND FRANKENSTEIN IS NAMED HENRY? Victor arrive ahead of Elizabeth and Henry's father, and the three hide the body. The Baron Frankenstein comes off as almost comedic here.

Henry is unwell. I don't call him Frankenstein because he is Henry, Henry is not Frankenstein. His professor promises to dispose of the monster and Elizabeth, the Baron, and Victor von Imposter take him home.

As the professor writes a note that he is going to perform a disection, the creature begins to stir in his 'death'. The professor even checks for signs of life and as he's listening for (or to?) its heartbeat it reaches upwards and grasps him by the back of his neck and with brute strength ends his life. Then it is time for the creature to skulk about the windmill till it can escape.

Henry and Elizabeth in the sun in a scene that calls to mind the book's nightmarish nautre. Of course the movie lacks that nature. You've not tasted of Victor von Frankenstein's feverish dreams. You've not felt his madness touch you to the bones. But knowing it you can feel some echoes of it, knowing how the story ought to go... THEY CHANGED IT AND NOW... actually while it feels like a bit of a 'dirty trick' it's a good effect and a scene that otherwise would be weak can borrow some effect from the book. It's actually sort of impressive.

Of course the effect islost in the later wedding scenes, but they are by no means bad scenes. There is a charmingness to them.

Is that a real cat? There is a little girl with a cat. I have lived my entire life surrouned by cats. Sometimes it looks real. Sometimes it looks horribly drugged, mouth hanging wildly open as if it was possessed by some dark force. Maria's cat is the most unsettling thing thus far in the moive. Though in general, even ignoring the cat, the scene with Maria is scary. You don't know when or if the monster is going to do something to the dear little girl who thinks nothing of approaching this massive man who does not talk, and has open wounds, and a deathly pallor.

Without malice he throws the girl into the lake to see her float, not understanding her cries that she is being hurt. It is a tragedy and makes the creature a tragic figure; as he was in the book. Yet in the book the tragedy was because he was an intelligent being, a being perhaps as smart as his creator, he was Adam to a hateful God. Cast out by God, and hated by mankind, he raged against God, and turned to wickedness to avenge himself. He was tragic in and for his intelligence. Here the creature is tragic for it might be like unto a man, but is a danger in its stupidity, it's mind underdeveloped and unable to exist in the world lest it destroy without even realization that it does so.

Boris Karloff has a good presence to him, his shambling approach, which in many ways ought to be more comical given how slow it is and the comedy routine of Elizabeth barely missing seeing it, manages to have a certain terror to it. It would be easy to take it as comical, just a little decision to ignore the menace of the man beneath the make up.

Henry's decision that a wedding is impossible while the monster lives is... a little off. The monster isn't truly after him or his family, it's just a lost wanderer. The lynch mob is called to ready with no indication that they know who the he they're looking for is. Though they have dogs to guide them so they're working off his scent? I don't know. Maybe some spirit caller talked to Maria's spirit for a description? Seriously the question as to 'is this a lynch mob for the creature or just anyone who is a stranger' is bothering me. I could accept the former, he's a child murderer even if one that is mentally incapable, but the latter is just sort of... guys... are you that backwater that there couldn't be more than one traveler in the region?

At the same time, the creature has hung someone to death or after kill them. And when it kills Henry it knows enough to hide the body, though is spotted in the process. It's mentally rather cunning in its own way. Though obviously didn't know what it was doing when it killed the girl from its reaction... The fact that no it's not hiding the body of Henry, but bringing him to the reanimation machine merely unconscious is a sign of greater intelligence than I gave him credit for. Knows enough to toss the body of Henry off the windmill as a threat to the mob too... I mean it just gets the windmill lit on fire but...

The Good: Boris Karloff - He's got presence even without words, much more in fact than Christopher Lee's portrayal of the creature.

The Bad: THEY CHANGED IT AND NOW IT SUCKS - It's not a movie of the book at all, and the book is a vastly richer and more fulfilling story.

The Ugly: Victor: This character does nothing except allow Elizabeth someone to talk to in one scene. WHY DID YOU GIVE HIM THE MAIN CHARACTER'S NAME? WHY? WHY?

Also the film could be read as a pretty unflattering presentation of the mentally handicapped. I'm not even going to touch on that, but there's that itching feeling throughout.

The Final Summation: It's not scary. As a horror film this must be judged. While it has tense moments, and the creature's first appearance has that tingle, it's not scary. It is a charming film, a nice little story that can be watched in 70 minutes if you aren't highly sensitive to unfortunate implications that were fairly common in the period (I notice more than I normally would because I kept having trouble not referring to the creature as mentally disabled). It is from an older day of film making and I feel like I could have gotten up and gotten something premade to eat or something to drink and not completely ruined my appreciation, while at the same time not feeling any scene had no purpose except to pad time. There are scenes that one wouldn't want to miss, and there are scenes that are 'less important', but it was a nice... relaxed film you could say. Even typing out like this I didn't feel like I was missing something in the frantic mess, and yet it was engaging enough to keep me entertained. It was refreshingly different in that regard even if not necessarily my preference. Still I do intend to watch more Universal studio monster films this month, and it was better than I expected due to my love of the book and knowledge that THEY CHANGED IT AND NOW IT SUCKS. That said the book is the better story with more grip upon the heart and mind of the reader, and much more ability to stir thought and wonder with the touch of the dreadful sublimity of the nature of life and death and the power of Creation and what it means to have it placed in the hands of man. If you have not read the book it is a classic of Science Fiction and Horror, and one that is worth the time even if not necessarily for all. If you have not watched the film... take it or leave it; it was an enjoyable enough film if you let it be but having seen it due to its part in the building of 'horror' movies I do not find it essential viewing as a horror film unless you seek an understanding of their history and evolution.

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Obscure Character List - Male Edition (A-M)

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition

Obscure Characters I love for some reason (A-M). (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why. UPDATED: Tumblr is being a butt about post length or something so I’m splitting up the lists.

A

Abraham Alastor/Anthony Clarke (Dark Pictures Little Hope)

Adam (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Adam (Hallmark Frankenstein 2004)

Al Capone (Night at the Museum)

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Alec Fell (Nancy Drew, The Silent Spy)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Amphibian Man/The Asset (Shape of Water)

André Toulon (Puppetmaster series)

Anthony Walsh (Blood Fest)

Anton Herzen (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Ardeth Bay (Mummy series)

Armand (Queen of the Damned 2002)

Armando Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean 5)

B

Barnaby (Sabrina Down Under)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Baron Meinster (Brides of Dracula)

Beast/Hank McCoy (X-Men, Kelsey Grammer version)

Beast/Prince (Beauty and the Beast 2014)

Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Bernard the elf (Santa Clause series)

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Blade (Puppetmaster series)

Bughuul (Sinister 1 and 2)

C

Caliban/John Clare (Penny Dreadful)

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan 2003)

Cedric Brown (Nanny McPhee)

Christian Thompson (Devil Wears Prada)

Colonel William Tavington (The Patriot)

Cornelis Sandvoort (Tulip Fever)

Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire (DC comics/Teen Titans)

D

Daniel Le Domas (Ready Or Not)

Death (Final Destination series)

Dimitri Allen (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future)

Dimitri Denatos (Mom’s Got a Date With a Vampire)

Dustfinger (Inkheart)

Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)

Dr. Gregory Butler (Happy Death Day 1 & 2)

Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)

Driller Killer (Slumber Party Massacre 2)

E

Edward Gracey (Haunted Mansion 2003) 

Edward Mordrake (Urban Legend/American Horror Story Asylum)

Edward/Eddie “Tex” Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3)

Elemer of the Briar (Elden Ring)

Erik Carriere (Phantom of the Opera 1990)

Ethan (Pilgrim 2019)

F

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)

Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Fegan Floop (Spy Kids trilogy)

Fox Mask/Tom (You’re next)

G

George Knightley (Emma)

Ghost/Mitch (Haunt 2019)

Godskin Apostle (Elden Ring)

Godwyn the Golden (Elden Ring)

Gold Watchers (Dark Deception)

Greg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

Grim Matchstick (Cuphead)

Gurranq Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring)

H

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (Broadway, Rob Evan version)

Henry Sturges (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Hugh Crain (Haunting of Hill House, the book and 1963 film. Not the Flanagan show or 1999 movie remake)

Hugo Butterly (Nancy Drew, Danger by Design)

I

Ingemar (Midsommar)

J

Jack Ferriman (Ghost Ship)

Jack Worthing/Uncle Jack (We Happy Few)

Jafar (Once Upon a Time, not the Wonderland spin-off)

Jan Valek (John Carpenter’s Vampires)

Jefferson “Seaplane” McDonough/Alex (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Arkhamverse! Video Games)

Jester (Puppetmaster series)

John (He’s Out There)

Joseph “Joey” Mallone (Blackwell series)

Juan (The Forever Purge)

Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood (Elden Ring)

K

Kalabar (Halloweentown)

Kenneth Haight (Elden Ring)

Killer Moth/Drury Walker (Teen Titans)

King Paimon (Hereditary)

L

Lamb Mask/Craig (You’re next)

Lamplighter (The Boys)

Launder Man (Crypt TV)

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon (Saw series)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods)

Lucifer (Devil’s Carnival 1 & 2)

M

Magic Mirror (Snow White 1937/Shrek)

Man in the Mask (The Strangers)

Manon (The Craft)

Man-Thing (Marvel’s Werewolf By Night)

Marco Polo/Merman (Crypt TV)

Marcus Corvinus (Underworld series)

Markus Boehm (Nancy Drew, the Captive Curse)

Mephistopheles (Faust’s Albtraum)

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)

Miquella (Elden Ring)

Mirror Man (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Mr. Crow/Aldous Vanderboom (Rusty Lake series)

Mr. Le Bail (Ready Or Not)

Mr. Slausen (Tourist Trap)

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