So I saw a Frankenstein movie 20 or 30 years ago and I've been trying to find it.
It's NOT Mary Shelly's Frankenstein with Robert Deniro.
I purchased that version on Amazon.com and watched it this weekend.
I can only provide 3 clues as to what version I am talking about.
1) I seem to recall that the doctor who Frankenstein
followed, before he died, had discovered that
"the process was reversing itself". He was writing this
sentence in his journal when he had a heart attack and
died. When Dr. Frankenstein discovers the journal the
last thing the scientist had written was "The process
is r...". In other words, the scientist was writing the
sentence when he had his heart attack and never
finished the sentence. Dr. Frankenstein then tries to
fill in the missing words and comes up with "The process
is ready to begin." Oops.
2) One of the creepiest parts of this version of
Frankenstein is the hand. There is this hand that the
scientist was working with, which he had reanimated,
and which was in the lab when Dr. Frankenstein took
over. Alls I remember is this hand (maybe a hand and
arm) kept getting loose and was always crawling around
the labratory.
3) At the end of the movie, as the wooden ship with the
tall sails reaches the North Pole and icebergs, etc, I
recall one of the members of the ship
(the captain?) looks at the ship's compass with
confusion. If he was trying to head south, why did the
compass point north? He opens the window on top
of the compass and discovers a magnet placed at due
south inside the base of the compass. When he pulls
the magnet out the needle swings due North.
I don't remember if it was the monster who put the
magnet in there or Dr Frankenstein, but obviously
someone had put the magnet in the compass
to ensure that they kept sailing North to the North
Pole. But by this time it is too late as they are all
freezing to death, the ship is trapped in the ice,
and civilization is safe from the monster.
This movie may have been a made-for-television movie that played out over the course of several nights.
Any ideas?
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Understood. It's definitely a generational thing. But teach a man to fish and all that jazz...
Wikipedia was my first stop. Looking up frankenstein provides an article that lists every movie & TV series created. So then it was just parsing the list and trying to remember which one it was. Once I saw the name and link to the right one I remembered that it matched.
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i thought it was terrible, like laughably bad.
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Frustrations when stuff like this used to drive me nuts.
Wikipedia was my first stop. Looking up frankenstein provides an article that lists every movie & TV series created. So then it was just parsing the list and trying to remember which one it was. Once I saw the name and link to the right one I remembered that it matched.
Both are good. I just know that before the internet and sites like those it would drive me up the wall trying to remember the Name of an actor or actress is seen somewhere or of some movies.