As recommended by Bill, I watched the first half of the new Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein on TV.
And wow! What a treat for the eyes. Clever, lush, big and bold, it's a fabulous production and a worthy entry in Promethian Shelley telly.
Watching Del Toro's sumptuous gothic feast made me think of Aurora monsters, Tim Burton, Bernie Wrightson and the 1970's TV film starring Michael Sarrazin, itself an enfant terrible of evening TV which shocked us all with its decapitation scene. Yuk!
There's even a similarity between Michael Sarrazin and Del Toro's leading man Oscar Isaacs!
Are you watching Frankenstein?
finished it last night and it was only after id seen it did ivrealise it was Del Toro! a beautifully lavish and visual feast, with some great characters and amazing sets. Bill
ReplyDeleteJust finished it too. Staggeringly good!
DeleteClose to this after a fashion?
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein:_The_True_Story
https://theconversation.com/frankenstein-could-an-assembled-body-ever-breathe-bleed-or-think-anatomists-explain-269112
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3912420/marcus-nispel-frankenstein-into-a-detective-drama/
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3912487/10-lesser-known-frankenstein-movies-to-watch-after-guillermo-del-toros-adaptation/
https://reactormag.com/for-the-world-is-hollow-and-i-have-touched-the-shoggoth-howard-waldrop-steven-utleys-black-as-the-pit-from-pole-to-pole/
Interesting links. Thanks.
DeleteAll heart patients are constructs...10% of one dead body, 90% of another..awakened by electricity, but lacking neck bolts, a severe aversion to fire, or a vastly reduced vocabulary. There have been talk of brain transplants, but the donor's identity remains intact. That having been said, some patients who received organs swear they adopted interests of the donor.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there was this lady:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-hand-made-tale-indian-amputee-limbs.html
Shades of Lorre's work in MAD LOVE.
Face transplant...shades of the comic book character in PREACHER
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/suicide-survivor-becomes-youngest-face-transplant-recipient-in-u-s/
BTW, Frankenstein was not a doctor
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/true-story-frankenstein
One last bit. Remember the 1994 film where Frankenstein used electric eels?
Long before Mary wrote about life from electricity from seeing galvanism experiments with frog legs...eels were actually changing the genetics of fish they swam with via accidental electroporation:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10702328/
Large jolts can result from feedback loops where a gator clamps on an eel--the eel issues a shock...which makes the gator seize and bite harder...
https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/1cnev8o/electric_eel_kills_aligator/
That might be the source of genetic jumps...the only thing more striking than that, was a flat head monster of a very different kind went walkabout...all umpteen billion tons of it:
https://www.geowyo.com/heart-mountain.html