Frankenstein Double Feature: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Oct. 20th at Washington University

“We belong…Dead!”

Please join Washington University’s Film and Media Studies and the Center for the Humanities as they celebrate the 200^th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a free screening of Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Young Frankenstein (1974). The event takes place at Brown Hall, Room 100, Washington University in St. Louis Friday October 20^th, 2017 at 7.00 pm. This is a FREE event and there will be free popcorn and soda there as well. 

Two hundred years have passed since Mary Shelley, the British novelist and dramatist, published her novel Frankenstein. Since that moment, her creation has not only caused a big impact in the literary world, but also in cinema, an art that was not even alive when the monster was born. In celebration of Frankenstein’s upcoming birthday, Film and Media Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis is organizing a free screening that will combine horror and comedy on the eve of Halloween.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935), “Warning! The Monster Demands a Mate!” Widely considered the high point of the 1930s Universal horror cycle, BRIDE is a brilliant blend of black humor and Gothic style. Boris Karloff reprises his greatest role as the Monster, with Colin Clive as his reluctant “father,” the hilariously creepy Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius and Elsa Lanchester as the screaming-mimi Bride. (American Cinematheque)

Young Frankenstein (1974), Director Mel Brooks’ hilariously abby-normal homage to 1930s monster movies – one of the strangest, funniest, most brilliantly conceived comedies since the heyday of the Marx Bros. Gene Wilder (who co-wrote the script) stars as Dr. Frankenstein (“That’s Frahnk-en-steen”), grandson of the famed mad scientist, struggling to breathe life into tap-dancing monster Peter Boyle with demented help from hunchback assistant Marty Feldman, lusty Teri Garr, neurotic girlfriend Madeline Kahn and Frau Blucher herself, Cloris Leachman. Kenneth Mars is outlandishly memorable as one-eyed, one-armed German Inspector Kemp, “ze leader of zis community!” “The biggest problem we had in doing YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was that we had to do so many takes because we couldn’t stop laughing.” – Teri Garr. (American Cinematheque)

What: Free screenings of Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Young Frankenstein (1974)

Where: Brown Hall, Room 100, at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, EE.UU.

When: Friday, October 20 – 7 P.M.

Who: Program in Film and Media Studies and the Center for the Humanities

Plus: Free popcorn and sodas!