The 23-minute doc that birthed modern horror's sexy goth grandpa.
How the gothic film by british production company Hammer Films helped in shaping the horror genre for audiences worldwide.
Direction
Nasr packs decades of horror history into snackable runtime.
Writing
Frayling's scholarly charm makes Gothic theory actually fun.
Director
Constantine Nasr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This featurette was produced for Warner's 2002 DVD release, part of a wave of scholarly extras that helped legitimize horror studies in mainstream home video.
Hammer's Frankenstein essentially created the 'mad scientist with daddy issues' archetype that still dominates Marvel villains and prestige TV antiheroes.
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