One Buffy studies writer draws comparisons between Dr. Walsh and Victor Frankenstein, both of whom build monsters out of body parts " to compensate for human vulnerability ".

In 2004, he co-created ( along with comic book artist Geof Darrow ) and draws Doc Frankenstein for Burlyman Entertainment, which is written by the Wachowski Brothers.

The concept behind Brother Power was derived heavily from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein right down to reanimation with the use of lightning.

In Koontz's continuity, when the monster attempted to attack Frankenstein, the doctor activated a small bomb he had implanted inside his creation's head as insurance against treachery ; though Deucalion was not killed, half of his face was badly deformed and heavily scarred.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

Often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and drawing on Universal's precedent, these films include The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), and Dracula ( 1958 ), both followed by many sequels, with director Terence Fisher being responsible for many of the best films.

Pretorius serves as a " gay Mephistopheles ", a figure of seduction and temptation, going so far as to pull Frankenstein away from his bride on their wedding night to engage in the unnatural act of non-procreative life.

* Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein, wrote a romance on the subject of Warbeck, the The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, published in London in 1830.

Throughout this time O ' Brien worked with Hoyt on a series of cancelled projects included Atlantis for First National studio, Frankenstein, and Creation for RKO Pictures, which was finally cancelled in 1931 with only 20-minutes of effects footage to show for an estimated $ 120, 000 development cost.

* When the Frankenstein Monster breaks free of his bonds on the operating table in the climactic chase / fight scene, one of his neck electrodes clearly pulls off of his neck.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was re-released theatrically by Realart in 1956 on a co-bill with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.

The lightsabers emanating from the Schwartz-rings held in front of the crotch are phallic symbols — a play on the words schwantz / Schwanz, which are Yiddish / German slang for penis, a term used by Brooks previously in the dialogue of his Young Frankenstein horror movie parody.

Bagdasarian Productions films have also aired on Disney Channel, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Chipmunk Adventure, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, Spirited Away and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

* Galvani's report of his investigations were mentioned specifically by Mary Shelley as part of the summer reading list leading up to an ad hoc ghost story contest on a rainy day in Switzerland — and the resultant novel Frankenstein — and its reanimated construct.

Snyder's Tomorrow re-runs continued until Thursday, January 28, 1982 and four days later on Monday, February 1, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry " Bud " Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers – the peacock girls.

The Associated Press noted: " DeForest's gnomish face was the first to greet viewers when Letterman's NBC show debuted on February 1, 1982, offering a parody of the prologue to the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein.

* In the Japanese manga series Embalming-The Another Tale of Frankenstein -, Azalea and Phillip are on their way to Gretna Green to elope.

One of his most talked-about roles was a live television version of Frankenstein on the anthology series Tales of Tomorrow, for which he showed up drunk.

For years, director Paul Morrissey disputed Margheriti's claim that he had directed " Andy Warhol's Frankenstein " in the early 1970s, saying that Margheriti was mostly just a technical advisor on that film.

The material is similar to that on Red Patent Leather, but notable for a radically re-arranged " Frankenstein " and a cover of Big Joe Turner's " Flip Flop Fly.

Also in the 1970s, Rich Buckler created Deathlok, a cyborg revivified by a madman as a slave killing machine, a dark twist on Frankenstein.

John Vella uses Frankenstein's monster to illustrate the second interpretation: the corpse lying on Frankenstein's table is already a fully organized human body, but it is not yet alive ; when Frankenstein activates his machine, the corpse gains a new property, the property of life, which Aristotle would call the soul.

Directors drafted in from outside AP Films were Peter Anderson, Leo Eaton and finally Robert Lynn, who had worked as an assistant director on the 1958 Hammer films Dracula and The Revenge of Frankenstein.

Warner also did voice work on the short-lived FOX animated series Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein.

Examples of this are Frankenstein ( 1910 ), a film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ), based on the psychological tale by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Two Jews: Rich, and Poor ( Frankenstein suggested two separate portraits, still extant, as the basis for Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle ), Gnomus, Tuileries ( now lost ), Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks ( a ballet costume design ), Catacombae, The Hut on Hen's Legs ( Baba Yaga ), and The Bogatyr Gates.

Another key feature was the " Frankenstein Movieguide ," an attempt to document all fantastic films seen on television with short " mini-reviews " written by Joe Dante and Stewart.

The group heads off to find Doctor Zola and do battle with a Frankenstein Monster of his, but seem to be trapped in the past.

Other historians, whether their field of research is Grimm, Shelley, or the Castle Frankenstein, do not see any evidence for this.

Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Superheroes ( starring the Fab 4, as the group's name was spelled on covers ), Brain Boy, and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes.

Del Toro said of his vision, " What I'm trying to do is take the myth and do something with it, but combining elements of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein without making it just a classical myth of the monster.

He has developed the technology to connect his village in Western Europe to various points in time, called Frankenholes, that allow various people from history to time travel to visit Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes he will do some sort of miraculous surgery to fix physical and mental flaws.

Universal Pictures begin releasing gothic horror films like Dracula and Frankenstein ( both 1931 ).

Beginning with black and white adaptations of Nigel Kneale's BBC science fiction serials The Quatermass Experiment ( 1955 ) and Quatermass II ( 1957 ), Hammer quickly graduated to deceptively lavish colour versions of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.

Tod Browning's Dracula ( 1931 ), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein ( also 1931 ).

Examples include universal horror films such as The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy.

The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature ( such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula ) and classic horror films ( such as Frankenstein and The Mummy ).

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Enduring icons of horror derived from these stories include Victor Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, and Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde.

Pop culture characters such as Dracula and Frankenstein actually exist in the Marvel Universe.

The latest installment was what he called a "' monster clambake ,' with everything thrown in — Frankenstein, Dracula, a hunchback and a ' man-beast ' that howled in the night.

Talbot tries to impart to Wilbur the danger of a shipment to the " McDougal House Of Horrors " ( a local wax museum ) which purportedly contain the actual bodies of Count Dracula ( Béla Lugosi ) and the Frankenstein Monster ( Glenn Strange ).

They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ( 1943 ), House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), House of Dracula ( 1945 ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ); playing Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ); and playing Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ) and The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ).

In his final horror film, Dracula vs. Frankenstein ( 1971 ), directed by Al Adamson, he played Groton, Dr. Frankenstein's mute henchman.

* Dracula vs. Frankenstein ( 1971 )

Curtis was producer and / or director of a number of television adaptations of horror-related productions including The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Turn of the Screw, all made between 1968 and 1975.

* Dracula vs. Frankenstein ( 1969 / 1970 )

* Terence Fisher-director of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and others

* Freddie Francis-director of The Evil of Frankenstein and Dracula has Risen From the Grave