universal monsters bust bank frankenstein

Young Victor reanimates the corpse of his bull terrier in Burton’s stop-motion remake of his 1984 short. Meanwhile, their creator, a descendant of Frankenstein, is trying to achieve world peace by fusing Soviet and Nazi brains. Luckless Soviet soldiers encounter an army of “zombots” equipped with choppy, slicey, drilly appendages. Frankenstein’s Army (2013)Ī found-footage picture set in Germany at the end of the second world war. We must be thankful, too, that Tim Curry’s definitive performance as the cross-dressing Dr Frank-N-Furter has been preserved for posterity: “In just seven days, I can make you a man!” 14. This omnisexual cult mashup of horror and sci-fi cliches doesn’t do justice to Richard O’Brien’s stage show, but the songs still hit the spot. Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/20th Century Fox/Allstar Roger Corman’s last film as director is daft as a brush, but it is hard to resist Raúl Julia as the mad doc and Michael Hutchence as Shelley.

John Hurt plays a 21st-century weapons inventor who is sucked through a time rift into 19th-century Geneva, where Frankenstein’s monster is running amok and killing people (like, er, an out-of-control weapon). Kenneth Branagh directed and stars in this po-faced gothic tosh as a mittel-European medical student who strips down to reveal unfeasibly well-toned abs as he leaps around his lab, marinading his monster (Robert De Niro with skin no worse than your average 18th-century smallpox patient) in a giant fish kettle. Luckily, he also steps up to bat when the country is threatened by a Godzilla wannabe called Baragon. One atomic bomb and many years of radiation later, it grows into a giant, feral boy-kaiju who can’t help destroying things. The Nazis present the heart of Frankenstein’s monster to Japan, where it ends up being studied by scientists in … Hiroshima. If you can put up with the tired adages (“It’s better to be a good nobody than an evil somebody”), there is some lovely Louis Prima on the soundtrack.

One Igor (John Cusack), smarter than his master, creates a female monster for an evil science fair. Photograph: Momentum Pictures/AllstarĪll evil scientists have hunchbacked assistants called Igor in this sub-Tim Burton animation full of Frankenstein references.

Universal monsters bust bank frankenstein