"Frankenstein" was probably the first "horror" movie made. This isn't the Karloff classic, this is the 1910 Edison reel, which was thought to be lost for decades.
I won't get into the weirdness that went about with restoring this amazing movie to the people, just google for the whole, strange story. However, finally, in all of its tinted glory, this movie returned from the proverbial ashes. You'll notice that it's a little different from both the story
and the later movies, but this had to do with the director being forced to use what he had to tell the tale. This is a great example of early film, with its static camera and use of sets arranged as they would be in theaters. It didn't take long for film makers to realize that the camera didn't
have to sit in the audience, and started moving it around. The really neat device in this film is the mirror. It adds an additional layer of sight, and it adds the insinuation that the monster was ever just a manifesting of the doctor's arrogance. And the song! Did you know Sergio Aragones
, the fantastic comic artist usually with Mad Magazine, used to do work for "pulp" comics like "Plop" and others? One of those stories was ghoulishly funny: A sculptor falls for his newest creation. His shrewish wife destroys it in rage, because "people want gargoyles! Carve gargoyles!" The
sculptor flips out and makes his wife into a gargoyle. ...And then she comes to life and well the mayhem was impressive. Hence the song, which works as well for Frankenstein and his monster! There's a lot of raw edges in the music, and we ended up leaving the vocals be. Ragged and harsh a
s they are, it fits the song a lot better. You can get the entire 1910 movie at the internetarchive.org, of course! Welcome to Route 66

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