The Evil Never Dies Podcast
S4 Ep291: Frankenstein (1931) Review
Its the start of spooky season so we are reviewing a Universal Studios Classic ! Frankenstein from 1931 starring Boris Karloff ! #frankenstein #universalstudios #universalmonsters #boriskarloff #horrormovies #horrormoviereviews #horrormoviepodcast #stayevil Intro and outro music by: Omni Slim @omnislim5381 on YouTube
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This is the Evil Never Dies podcast with Bretton Carl. This podcast may contain adult themes, violence and strong language. Listener discretion is advised. [Music] Welcome back to episode 291 of the Evil Never Dies podcast. I'm Brett. Here was Carl. What's going on, man? You know what's going on. It's a shitty day. Yeah. Just wanted to thank all the nine viewers for last episode. Yeah, you know, that's sort of why I don't even want to do the show tonight. It's like, what the fuck? Oh, fuck. I don't know what went on with that. I don't know either, but yeah, fuck it. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Go from 550 to whatever. I don't know, man. We're going to do a movie tonight, which everybody seems to like. And it's right there, Frankenstein, the original. The original. We haven't done a universal film in a while. Well, this is not a good one for me to do because I am not an expert on the universal Frankenstein movies at all. I don't know much about them. I never have. Okay. That's just was a little out of my time, I guess. You know, we've talked about the universal movies before, but the original Frankenstein is not something I'm an expert on. So we'll see how this goes. I'll give my input at least. What do you say you got the DVD of it? That's it. I have a pack that has all the Frankenstein movies, including that stupid fucking Abbott and Castello Frankenstein. Is it the blue ray or the DVD? It's a shitty copy. And I went to movie trading company hoping to get at least the decent copy of it. And I did not find it. And you told me it was on peacock by the time I was halfway through watching it again. So I will not be able to do a Blu-ray or a DVD or a 4K review or you're going to have to do all the dad as far as how it looked in 4K tonight. It actually looked pretty good, actually. It was still like in the letterbox. Yeah, that's what they were filmed in. But yeah, but it was really clear. So for being a black and white movie, I tried. I thought I'd be able to get a good copy of it. And I did not. It didn't work. Well, I was looking on Walmart and they got the it's probably the same disc, but it's in Blu-ray format. Yeah, they had a special that came out back in like 2016. Well, there's a 4K of this thing out now and it's a steel book. Yeah, I seen that. I would bought it, but motherfucking Walmart, nowhere in the Dallas Fort Worth area apparently has it in stock. You have to ship it. And I'm not a member of Walmart plus and they charge like fucking $8 to ship shit. Oh, really? Huh, just glitched over there. I glitched. Yeah, the screen glitched. Well, shit, I got my cool cup at least tonight. Cheers me up, son. Can you see it on the thing? There you go right there. Oh, yeah. Where'd you get that at? Tom Thumb. Oh, my favorite grocery store. They got the best meat, man. We get the best bargains from there, man. Today they had the waters to buy to get too free. So I forgot. There's a Frankenstein up here in the Ouija board. Oh, yeah. Okay, let's get into Frank. All right. Frankenstein from 1931. It was a short movie. Yeah, but it's only an hour and 10 minutes. I think 70 minutes long directed by James Whale. And this was actually his first horror film. Well, there wasn't many films period in 1931. So I don't guess that's too surprising. But he was more known for directing like war movies and stuff like that. And he wanted to get away from that and get into a different. Yep, there he is. There's another Frankenstein. We'll try to put some light on him. All right, screenplay by Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Fargo, and uncredited Robert Florie and John Russell story by Richard Shayer based on the 19 or 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley. And I have never read that novel. So I probably should have in my life, but I never have. She was only 19 years old when she wrote that. I've seen the movie about her. Yeah. And also, it was semi based on there's a 1927 play that they did. So produced by Carl Lamel Jr. He was like one of the big wigs at Universal Studios. Produce big producer. Yeah, of the time. And actually with the big success they had from Dracula with Bill and Legosi, he decided that he was going to do a run on horror movies. So yeah, the Legosi Dracula did come out before and it was very successful. And I think this made Frankenstein a bigger budgeted event than it would have been. Yeah, Bill Legosi was wanted to actually play Dr. Frankenstein. But I'm glad he didn't. But that producer wanted him to be the monster. And he did not want to be the monster. I remember that. Yeah, he didn't want to be the monster. So he did. I mean, I love Legosi and Carloff together, but I think it would have totally ruined this movie if Legosi played. Yeah, Henry Frankenstein. I don't know why they call him Henry in this that is it's always been Victor Frankenstein from the novel on. They said to try to make him more desirable to the audience. Well, they have such a freaky name. Like Victor is a freaky name. I guess. Yeah. So I think that. Yeah, that's one of my biggest objections of the movie is they changed his name. So I didn't like that. All right, cinematography by Arthur Edison and cinematography was really good for a movie. Oh, it was fucking phenomenal for for for the time edited by Clarence Coaster and Maurice Pivar, production company, of course, his universal pictures distributed by universal pictures released on November 21st, 1931. Like we said, as a running time of 70 minutes, country of origin, United States, English language, budget was $262,000 and seven cents and seven cents. That's funny. And $12 million. It's made at the box office as of April 13th of 2012. Pretty impressive. Yeah. Which was what was that 2012 would have made it what? 80 years old, 81 years old. Yeah. All right, that's the stats. Why don't you go ahead and give us the plot, Carl? Okay, so the movie starts out with a funeral. There's some dead dude there. I guess it was a dude. Look, since they use the body later. But we see a hunchback in the background who's wanting to go get the body. And there's a man who we turns out to be Dr. Frankenstein. I guess he's a doctor in this. I don't think they refer him to such. And they're watching the funeral. So then we have to sit through the whole scene where they bury the guy just to have we'll call him the hunchback. He's not I Gore or Igor in this one. And Frankenstein, the doctor reportedly, uh, Henry Frankenstein, dig up this body and take it with them. So got grave digging going on, grave Robin. As they go, they find some guy that's hung the hunchback cuts him down. And Henry says all his brains destroyed. We can't use it. So fast forward to a medical college. I guess they called him back then. They got a Bucky skeleton in there. You know, which was used for medical studies before they became haunted house favorites. So the hunchback is watching through the window after everybody leaves makes his way down. We see we have a brain that is normal brain and abby normal brain. Yeah. So the hunchback breaks the jar and destroys the normal brain. So he takes the abby normal brain with him and heads off to Henry Frankenstein. And there's a creature that he's made and they put the brain in him and that is the plot of the original Frankenstein. No, I got a question. If they would actually put the normal brain in there. How do you think he would have acted? I think he would have acted fine. I said this abby normal guy was a killer and a murderer. So yeah, he seemed like he was mentally challenged perhaps the way he acts as the creature. Exactly exactly. Hey, I just realized my skeleton ain't on. What's up with that? Oh, no. I got my new skeleton. He's given everybody. I see him. He's given everybody the finger. You can get his lots to work. He's no, he's pissed about nine views from last week's episode. I see that. We can't get that guy's eyes to work. I got him to work last year. I had some batteries in him and then electric taped it in. But when I got him back out this year, he didn't work. Yeah, his heads, he's got some screws loose for sure. He does have some screws like it's probably fixed with it. I just we got too much other shit going on right now. The funny part of the story is I had a warranty on him since I bought him broke and they paid me all 50 bucks. Yeah. So I got that gift certificate right now. So yeah, what might happen with that $50? I don't know. Back to Frankenstein, which is poetic. All right. Let's go over the cast here. First off, we got Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and he played a phenomenal role. If that had been Lagosi, it would have ruined the whole movie. Yeah, it would have ruined the whole movie. Next, we got May Clark as Elizabeth Levenza, Henry's fiance, John Bowles as Victor Moritz, Henry's friend. Next off, we got John Bol or Boris Karloff as. Well, the opening credit. It has question mark. He's got there's a question mark and he's not actually credited as the monster till the ending credit. So next off, we got Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Waldman. Frederick Kerr here is I'm really proud of Scarlett. She just watched Frankenstein with me and she enjoyed it. Oh, really? He was fascinated by the scene where the girl drowned and wanted to watch it again. Spoiler alert. Well, never seen. If you haven't seen this since 1931, then fuck. I don't know. Sorry. I shouldn't have said that word in front of Scarlett. I apologize Scarlett. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry. I try not to cuss in front of her. Feel like an idiot now. All right. Enjoy the movie a lot. She was good. He loves the old black and white movies. Awesome. I had to wait last night when I was over for Julius birthday. I had to wait for it to go to bed before I could watch it. So. Didn't want no nightmares on her birthday night. So yeah, happy birthday to Juliette. I mean, if she's a big six, big six years old now. And she's a big Minecraft fan plays Minecraft. She got everything Minecraft. And she got all kinds of new Minecraft stuff. And she got to go to some play part day. They had bumper cars and all kinds of stuff. They wouldn't let them go on the zip lines though because there are too little. You need to be 42 inches. She was pissed. I don't know. She wanted to go on them zip lines. But she had fun though. But so yeah, anyway. All right. Back to Frankenstein. Back to Frankenstein. Sorry about that, folks. Dwight Fry as Fritz Henry's assistant. I guess that's the hunchback guy. Yeah, that's for its name. Lionel. Yeah. Lionel Belmore as hair Vogel. I guess he was like the what do we got? The burger mister. Yes, he was. Maryland Harris as little Maria, the little girl that Carl just drowned. Yeah. Scarlet was fascinated by that scene. She really was. I think she's trying to figure out if Frankenstein really meant to do that or if it was an accident. So I really can't tell. I believe it was an accident. I think he was trying to play with her. But that's what she thought. Yeah. That's what I've always thought. Well, that was Scarlet's theory as well. That scene was originally cut out. Yeah. That wouldn't put in until they redid it on VHS or whatever that was. Whenever that was. And Michael Clark is Ludwig, Maria's father, and Francis Ford is Hans unpredated. And that is the cast for Frankenstein. From 1931. What are you looking up there, Carl? Just looking some stuff up on it. I see. I guess this is not my movie that I'm not very knowledgeable about Frankenstein. So I feel sort of like I don't even belong on the show this week. Oh, they had all kinds of problems with sensors for this movie. Again, just because the lot of the lines that were said, the I feel like I am God now or whatever line that was in the state of Kansas requested the cutting of 32 scenes. I think I just wouldn't have released it in Kansas. Well, yeah, well, that would have cut half the film off, you know, yeah, it was only an hour and 10 minutes to begin with. So yeah, like this week, you can see my legosi picture there pretty good. Oh, yes. Lots of universal going on here. I like the old universal stuff. Oh, what was I was trying to look up here? The cuts, you said? Yeah, there's a bunch of different. Yeah, the home media. Yeah, it wasn't released on home VHS until 1986. So that's crazy that they waited that long. It is. What else? Yeah, that's what they put up. It was the original one. Original film that wasn't censored. Yeah. And then they started releasing all these classic monster collection. They released one like every five years, it seems like. And Walmart put a special one out of just Frankenstein. And it has a glow in the dark cover. I wish I could find that. Yeah, that'd be cool. Black lights galore around here right now. Yeah. For sure. I wonder if that's this, I wonder if that's the cover for that. Can you see that? Yeah, I can see it. I wonder if that's the cover for that glow in the dark one, because that one sort of again it. As soon as, yeah, wait a minute, because now it's showing me I'm going to shut up. Now you can show it. Can you see it now? Can everybody see it? Carl's shaking its head. Yeah, I like that version of the I've always loved your pictures. You got there of Legosi and Carl off. Yeah, I like them. I just fronted them at the Walmart, man. That's pretty cool. Black and white didn't make no difference. Yeah, but now they got the one was it released for the 90th anniversary. They released the 4k ultra HD blue ray and that's what I look to try to buy today. And I can't find it anywhere in the damn Dallas foot worth Metroplex. They didn't even have a used one movie. No, no, not at the 4k. The 4k's are hard to find, man. If you find one, people don't sell them. Yeah, they just, they don't sell them, man. People call on to these things. It's probably a good thing to do that. Who knows they might be worth something someday. Well, I did read a little bit about it as far as I guess they had remastered these movies in 4k a few years ago, but they really couldn't put it out. It was, you know, upscale it up. And this 4k is supposed to really look good. Now you watched it in 4k on per on peacock. So you said it looked really in the disc always looked better than streaming. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure that those look good and on the actual desk for sure. Amazon's got it, but they can't deliver it until next Monday. Go figure. How much is it for on there? 20 L on Amazon. Well, that ain't bad for 4k shit. Well, the still books almost as cheap at Walmart, but I don't know. It's not a priority right now. Yeah, yeah. I thought if I could find it today, but yeah, I didn't work out. They also, Walmart also released one with all the six universal. It's probably the same DVD you got, but they just made a 4k of it. I think so. It had a cool looking cover, like a steel book cover on it. I was looking at, it's only 17 bucks to ship, said free shipping on it too, I think, but I'm not no. Yeah, Walmart don't have nothing for free anymore. Anyway, all right, I guess we'll go over some trivia here. There's probably some good trivia. We got two more years, Carl. Till what? Till the copyright for the monster's makeup. Finally expires. Finally expires. And then we can finally make flathead Frankenstein movies. Oh shit. I still piss the universal into 2026. So, you know, I love the hammer, the first hammer of Frankenstein, but Christopher Lee looks so we've talked about it before. The makeup was just not good. I just want a flathead Frankenstein movie that's modern that looks good. The universal has dropped the ball on this for how many years? Shit, almost 100, close to 100. Well, they had the sequels that were good, but I'm talking about modern day. Herman Munster was the best Frankenstein we had. You know, I just never understood why they didn't do a remake of Frankenstein of the original movie universal. You know, Hammer did a damn good job with what they had. So, yeah, well, maybe two years, so I'm gonna have to live two years just to get ahold of the makeup and then I'm gonna make my own Frankenstein movie. All right. The monster in the film does not physically resemble the character in Mary Shelley's novel, not at all, but I don't care. I don't either. Jack P. Pierce's idea that came up with the flathead and the bolts through the neck and the famous universal makeup artist that did all the movies. Any future film, Frankenstein film or parody such as the monsters that features any of these physical abnormally, abnormalities takes its inspiration from Pierce's was the month, monsters weren't universal, were they? I think they were, were they? Okay. Yeah, because I think you're on Peacock, which is universal shit. Did Rob Zombie do the monster monster through universal? I don't know. That look it up. He had a flathead in that Herman Munster, didn't he? With did he have a flathead? Yeah. He looks like Herman Munster. I mean, look that up. Go and look and go keep talking. All right. This was the first film to use the famous castle thunder sound effect. The thick, sold boots, the monster wares are known as hot asphalt boots. They were used by men who had to work with hot asphalt on roads. The souls are specifically designed to resist heat and they weighed 13 pounds of peace. Wow. So I remember hearing that before. Yeah, Universal Studios produced the monsters. The film, Universal Studios distributed the monsters for Rob Zombie. Okay. So yeah, that's how they got got to use the flathead. They were a production company of it too. It was called Universal 1440, which is their direct video label. So yeah, there you go. All right. I knew that. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't lying. A microphone was placed in the coffin used at the funeral at the funeral scene at the beginning to amplify the sound of the grave dirt heading the lid, which it was loud. Yeah, it's got a really good soundtrack for being so old. I've finally got my soundbar to work again after a month and um is loud. Good soundtrack on this thing I got. All right. According to the film historian Gregory W. Mank, director James Whale was jealous of the attention Boris Karloff's monster was getting during production and took revenge by making uh the actor Carrie Collin Clive up the mountain to the mill and take after take like dozens and dozens of time and uh huh. Why would he be jealous of his own thing? I don't know and after about the 12th time Clive felt badly for Karloff and said hey can we just use a dummy and Whale refused and he Karloff continued to carry him up the hill and Clive was six foot tall and weighed 154 pounds. Wow. So he got a workout while he was. Yeah. That's just weird. I don't know why he'd have been jealous of his own freaking monster. I mean maybe I don't know. I can't explain that one. James Whale had looked for months to try to cast somebody for the monster and he was in the universal studios commissary and saw Boris Karloff and passed him a note saying come do a screen test and he got it. So that's how Boris Karloff got the job. Wow. Never knew that. So yeah out of the lunchtime at the universal commissary. Karloffs make up to four hours each day for Jack Pierce to apply and the whole costume weighed 48 pounds and they were filming in the middle of summer. So. Sorry I keep yawning. It's been a long, long damn day. It has for sure. Ah here we go. The leading character of Mary Shelley's book Dr. Victor Frankenstein was renamed Henry because it was decided that Victor would sound too severe and unfriendly to the American audiences at the time. Well that was a mistake and I'm still mad about that. I don't like it. Don't like it. I don't like it. It's gonna get a at least about a .5 reduction just because of the name change. Oh okay. The movie's lying. It's alive. It's alive was voted as the number 49 movie quote by American by the American Film Institute out of 100 in the year 2005. I'm sure some dumb shit beaded out. Boris Karloffs considered to be a late bloomer in Hollywood. premiered. Did Frankenstein when he was 44 years old? Well he had a long ass career so. Yeah I know. He was still making movies like up into the 60s. Well he did the Grinch. He was like 70s I think when he did it right. Yeah. That was in the 60s. No I said in the 1960s yeah. Not 60 years old. Okay. Either way he had a long career after this so. Let's see here. The method of animating the creature is never discussed in the novel. In the book Frankenstein narrating refuses to divulge how he did it so no one can recreate his actions. Although there are some hints that involves mixing chemicals. However the use of lightning to resurrect the monsters become the accepted methodology that appears in most every Frankenstein movie since. Frankenstein the True Story 1973 and Frankenstein 1994 wasn't that the one with Da Narrow? Yes. I don't like that movie. That was a piece of shit. It was. That won't ever get fucking reviewed on this. They fucked that movie up. Technically not conceived as a horror movie since the term horror as a film genre was first used in 1934. They consider this more of a science fiction film. 1991 Frankenstein was added as a national film registry by the United States Library of Congress so it will forever be around. I guess. Unless the Library of Congress blows up I guess. Well they got all that shit in that mountain iron mountain or whatever like. Good. So we'll never lose Frankenstein. We in a moment in a moment a ghoulish humor when Fritz is stealing the brain he bumps into a human skeleton. This was a real human skeleton film producer found it was faster and cheaper to produce purchase a real human skeleton from a biological supply house rather than creating an artificial one and you couldn't go to Home Depot and buy one back then. And that was the same as in polar guys it was cheaper to use real ones though. Now not anymore you can go to Home Depot and get some good ones for good price. Yep. Fifty bucks. Once they had this year we're only 40 though. That went down in price yeah. Yep. Oh we already covered that let's see here. Boris Karloff often referred to the Frankenstein monster as the dear old boy. Oh like I already said we already talked about it being banned in Kansas because they wouldn't let them cut out half the movie. So I hear it's still banned in Kansas. Is it? Yeah. Let's see here. They switched the names Frankenstein's was Henry in this while his best frame friend's name was Victor. Who seemed sweet on his fiance. Yeah he was always after her. Oh what are commonly called bolts in the neck of the monster are really in reality what are they Karl bolts electrodes. I guess that's where they put the wires up for him to get shocked from the lightning apparently. Why would you put I guess they look they look weird if they're like coming on the side of his head though. Yeah they would. It looked better on the neck. Set design of the windmill sequence was inspired by a building in Los Angeles that housed a local bakery Vandy Camp Bakery which displayed a large windmill as its corporate logo. It was a creepy looking. I was about to say that it was a creepy looking um set. Creepy as shit. One thing I did notice like when they're like climbing the mountain or whatever and the background of the sky. Yeah you can see the lines that it was made out of paper. You can see them on that 4k. Ah yeah that's a thing when you get into 4k it shows everything. So you can see you can tell it to some of these older movies. Yeah you can definitely tell it's fake. So I am eating candy corn by the way so. Candy oh it's the chocolate one so. They're the good ones. Yeah the chocolate ones are okay. Normally known as um Indian corn. Now they're called harvest corn. John Houston wrote an early version of the warning speech given at the start of the film. John Carradine turned down the part of the monster because he considered himself too highly a trained actor to be reduced to playing monster. Well hell hell hell. What changed? Let's see here. Oh assuming it's copyright is not lap story of the film and all other produced in 1931 enter the US. Yep so it'll be public domain for sure in 2027 beginning at 2027. You know like Winnie the Pooh's public domain now so they're making all them stupid Winnie the Pooh's blood and honey movies. Oh I know them are dumb too. I couldn't even sit through that first one. I didn't even try to watch the second one. So dumb as shit. I don't know who put the front of the money to make that piece of shit but. And I guess it will not be reviewed on the show. No I can't say it will be. Oh our movies here lately. What's that? You're blocking a lot of movies here lately. There's just a lot of shit out there man. Talked about a lot of this stuff already man. So yeah. What's your thoughts on it Carl? Um genius masterpiece way ahead of its time. There's nothing you can say bad about this movie. Like I said my biggest nitpick is the fact they changed his name to Henry instead of Victor. I guess because I've watched all the hammer films as a kid and he was always Victor in those or Baron Frankenstein. He wasn't even a Baron in this when it was his father. So if that's all I can nitpick that's about it. I mean I thought the wedding scene was a little drawn out but you got to realize it's not the 31 so they probably had to add some stuff like that back then just to get the movie put out. You know if it was all gloom and doom who knows that might ever got released might not have got released. So that part was a little but Universal had that in several of their movies. You know the whole like celebration stuff and. Yeah. I didn't like the ending. I don't I don't like the fact that Henry well I don't want to give it away. I didn't like the ending. Yeah it was sort of it wasn't a typical. Yeah it was very a typical universal ending. So I don't want to if you haven't watched this and I don't know what to tell you. I mean but the ending is not my favorite. So that's about all I can nitpick. Everything else was genius. I'm trying to think of the first time I actually seen this movie. I don't remember man. I think they met I think maybe they brought it back to theaters maybe something in between then. Here's a story I can tell you. My dad used to be work for interstate theaters and I don't know which one it was if it was the original or back into theater or one of the sequels but he said he led a guy dressed like Frankenstein down the street that the word theater I think it was. He used to tell me that story all the time. He was a big fan of those universal monster movies. Oh cool. But yeah he he was my dad only had like three jobs in his life sort of sort of like me. I think I've had less actually but one of them was a manager of the interstate theater downtown. And he got the he said I think he was on a chain he said said people were creeped the hell out too early. So I don't know if that was a brought back to the theater or if it was one of the sequels. So what year was that? Hadn't been the 50s I would think. Oh okay. So you weren't even. Oh no. No. This is before he went into the army. So it might have been. It might have been he was born in 1934 I think so. Okay. Cool story I always thought that I really don't remember the first time I seen this then. I don't know either. I just always knew of the character of Frankenstein or the monster of Frankenstein. Don't know that I did see the movie. Yeah it was like it was sort of like a myth almost you know. Yeah I mean we always saw the pictures and the the flathead Karloff but I don't know when I saw the movie originally. I know man. It's like we're in the fucking matrix or something. Garlet do you want to give your opinion on the movie? Do you like it or didn't like it? Were you going to rank it on the ranks of one to five? Not five. Oh she gave it a five job. Yeah. I'm turning her into an old horror movie but if I could never do that with Madison. But yeah I don't remember when I actually first seen this. I'm pretty sure I must have seen it when that first came out on at least VHS shit. I don't know. I honestly don't. I'm probably the hammer of Frankenstein first. I don't know. You know what probably me too. For sure. But anyway since then I've probably seen it a hundred times since I've been able to see it you know. I think I might have seen the wolf man versus Frankenstein first. Maybe yeah. I can remember that as a kid. Maybe they played it like on one of the late night. I don't know if Universal let him. I don't know. Sort of like you said like a matrix scenario here. Yeah that's all right. I'm going to give this thing. You can't believe I didn't see it before 1986. Yeah I know. But if you only give a rating I'm going to give it a 4.7. Okay. And just like I said I don't like they changed his name that really irritates me even though I wasn't even. It was a hundred years ago almost but it still irritates me. And I thought that whole wedding thing was a little bit drawn out other than that. It's great but it's not my favorite Universal Monster movie. If you watched us back in the our first year it is the wolf man. That is my favorite. This would probably be number two. Maybe number three I think I like Frankenstein versus the wolf man just as well. But this movie is definitely iconic and nothing bad about it except what I just mentioned and that's just nitpicking. Well I got to agree with you there. When I watched it. When I watched it today on the or last night and I skim through it again today on the 4K it's like the cinematography is just awesome for the time you know they did a really good job with the camera work on that. Better than Dracula with Lugosi. Dracula was really dark. It was a really dark. This was very well lit up you know and stuff you could actually see everything dark where it needed to be you know. But they said the 4K it actually darkens up the scenes that were dark that don't look so good on the DVDs and Blu-rays. So yeah Karloff did an awesome job as the monster you know. He did some good acting actually. For a first role you know. Lugosi always talks shit about he oh it's just makeup and grunts. Well he did some good acting especially the little girl drowning scene which we've already spoiled. You know some of the most iconic monster sounds are his grunts you know. Yeah I think that Home Depot Frankenstein has those grunts but uh yeah. That is a universal official release by the way. Oh it is. I just don't know that universal owns the rights the Karloff's face. Like this mask back here that trick-or-treat studios they had it said on their officially license by the Karloff estate or some shit. Really. So I don't know how that works. They put out a Karloff Frankenstein about 15 years ago and at the time I was wanting to buy it but I didn't and looking back it looked really dumb I'll send you a picture of it after the show. Okay all right. So what are you giving this thing give me a rating. I'm gonna have to give it a I'm gonna go with a 4.8 on it because. What is your only nitpick then? Probably like you said the name. The name change. They should never change his name. The little thing at the beginning the little talking thing. I think they could have done with that done without that. Well you gotta realize 1931 so I don't that didn't bother me. But they should I think they should have just got right in on it. Carly gave it a five straight up so he don't rank this. She left again. I can see I can see where the the little girl the drowning in 1931 I can see where that would they where they would want to cut that out for sure. Oh that probably would have freaked a lot of people out but. All right keeps coming in and out of the rooms. Yeah I'll go to I'll give it a 4.8 for sure so. All right. I guess that's it man. That's it. Anything else. You got anything else? No. Still got t-shirts for sale if you want to. Empire Venom. Check us out on all the social medias hit that like and subscribe. I need another t-shirt. I keep wearing the one I got and it's starting to rip in the back. No way not already. I need a new one. Scarlett needs a new one. Well we got another little fit just sorry. Hey I mean he she said well I'm sorry we don't. She said you better be at the haunted house to work the marsh he's firing you. I didn't work today. I just I didn't feel like it. I just hadn't been a good day. So sorry for being grumpy. We'll get some shit done tomorrow. Hey the fire's going. I need to go check on it. Yeah we don't want the fucker burning down to the ground. That was not going to burn down. It's it was at the very middle of the of the tank where the the can when I left it. Okay. It might burn out overnight actually. So some more shit on there and let it burn all night. Fuck it. I don't know. That's all we got for this week. So stable everybody. Bye. Mr. Carl Emily feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein. A man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain now is your chance to. Where is it? We've warned you. No, it's me, it's me. 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