It's Wednesday! Time for another post exploring all things inspired by that classic tale, Frankenstein! We've gone over the first time Frankenstein took to the screen, now let's explore something a wee bit more recent, the 1994 film starring Robert De Niro (as the creature) and Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth. A few parts of this one had me hugging my pillow. Helena Bonham Carter. I mean... what can I say? Interesting bit of trivia on this one: the word monster was banned from the set. The credits billed Robert De Niro as "The Sharp-Featured Man" ([...]
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1 It's Wednesday, which means more talk about that classic undead, Frankenstein's monster. A few weeks ago we got started with some trivia about the book where it all began, so this week I thought we'd look at the first time this story was put to film. But it wasn't where you might believe. Edison (yeah, Thomas Edison, the light bulb guy, he did other stuff, too!) Studios made a short film for the movie in 1910, but it was called sacrilegious (as this story often was) and disappeared into the night. It didn't pop back up again until the 1950s when a private collec[...]
It's Wednesday--the day Faith shows up and tells you something about Frankenstein. What's an undead creature going to do without some theme music? SPOTIFY: Track List: Monster Mash Frankenstein by Lenny Kravitz Over at the Frankenstein Place from The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack 1816. The Year Without a Summer by Rasputina The Ballad of Frankenstein by Stereomonster Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group Teenage Frankenstein by Alice Cooper Feed My Frankenstein by Alice Cooper Some Kind of Monster by Metallica Bride of Frankenstein by Toy[...]
It's Wednesday! Time for more Frankenstein! Whether you've read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or not, I'd like to believe that all this talk of the classic tale has put you in the mood for a retelling. And so today I present to you a YA gothic retelling of Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel, This Dark Endeavor. This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #1) by Kenneth Oppel Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein and inseparable until Konrad falls gravely ill. In the forbidden Dark Library, Victor finds an ancient formula, and seeks a[...]
Since I've started posting about that classic monster of Frankenstein's here on Wednesdays, I thought it would be a great opportunity to pry open the minds of the other Midnight Society members and see what their favorite classic monsters are! Make sure to let us know what your favorite is in the comments! What's your favorite classic horror monster? I’m a fangirl of bloodsuckers, personally. I loved tracking the progression of the vampire in literature back to the days of Robert Polidori and Sheridan la Fanu, but especially seeing its evolution as a romantici[...]
So there I am, typing away on my manuscript like a good little writer, when a Spotify ad plays. Normally I ignore these things, I swear, but what do I hear coming out of this ad? THE MUNSTERS THEME SONG. You gotta stop and whistle, you just have to. I look to see what's happening, and it turns out that Fall Out Boy recently came out with this very popular song you may have heard already called Uma Thurman. This is what the bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz had to say on the wikipedia page for this song... "This was a fun song to write. originally, when we came up with[...]
When I was a kid my favorite thing to draw was Frankenstein's monster. Eventually, I drew a little monster family, and wrote little stories about their adventures together. They had a little dog, too. Frances, the daughter, really liked math and science, and liked to play with building frankenbugs. Some kids are cooler than others. I thought it'd be fun to do a post about my love of Frankenstein and fill your brains up with some frankenlove, but when that post crept up over a thousand words, I thought, how about a series of posts where we can just keep talking[...]
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes, You're paralyzed ......'Cause this is thriller! Thriller night... - Thriller, Michael Jackson Ahem. Sorry guys, I am known to break out in song. Does anyone else always think of 13 Going on 30 when they hear this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbYxXg7p-A#t=41 And yeah, I got side tracked again. That'[...]
Skulls! Not necessarily that creepy, (they've got nothing on hearts) I mean when we talk about skulls we're usually talking about clean ones, so no blood or guts, and yet when you see one, you definitely don't think Sunday brunch at the Country Club, now, do you? Let's celebrate their creepiness a bit. Noah Scalin definitely did that with his art book, Skull-A-Day... Skull-A-Day by Noah Scalin Skull-A-Day began in June 2007 when Scalin, at a creative crossroads, decided he would make a skull every day for the next year. He went to his studio, cut th[...]
I'm working on a series right now about zombies. Kind of. It's about an all girl pop band fighting zombies. (Check out my pinterest board, I think it's ridiculous fun!) This has me doing lots of reading about weapons (and listening to an absurd amount of pop music), so I thought I'd open up everyone's favorite debate... What would be your weapon of choice for zombie slaying? Are you someone who wants something up close and sharp? Blunt? Something you can use from far away? What do you think will increase your odds? You can take more than one, but my ultimate tra[...]