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IMDB rating: 5.50 Plot: In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be superbody and superlover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go with a body he’s built, but he’s made an error, taking the head of a gay aesthete. Meanwhile, the Baroness has her lusts, and she fastens on Nicholas, a friend of the dead lad. Can the Baron pull off his grand plan? He brings the two zombies together to mate. Meanwhile, Nicholas tries to free his dead friend. What about the Baron’s children? |
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Frankenstein: What is the *other* version that gives details on the making of the monster?
I read Frankenstein for the first time many years ago, and distinctly remember accounts of a tank of many different chemicals, and a growing of the monster from a part of V. Frankenstein’s own flesh. Also, on the creation (or beginning thereof) of the second and female monster, he uses a part (and yes, only one part of one body) of some significant female character’s body from the story. In almost all other aspects, my memory agrees with the Mary Shelley original (unless she wrote something else before the more commonly known one).
I feel certain I’m going crazy, because the only Shelley copy i can find has no details, only a fairly vague account of how he builds the creature in his laboratory through methods of science (he was a chemistry student at University of Ingolstadt) and alchemy (largely based on the writings of Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus, and Cornelius Agrippa) which are not clearly described.
Can someone help me out, and tell me which other story my memory has merged with this one, or what other version of "Frankenstein" I read, or just share your own memory of the same version of the story?
Sorry, wasn’t clear. I’m pretty sure the female character mentioned was Justine Moritz: and obviously by the time that a part of her flesh was taken she was well and truly . I’m also certain that I read it, and just as certain that I hadn’t seen any cinematic reproduction of the story until this afternoon. I do realise that the original Shelley story doesn’t include these details, and the one that I remember reading didn’t have many more details, just that the monsters were "grown" rather than "built".
above should read "Well and truly deceased" the word - - - doesn’t seem to want to show up…
Oh, and I’m pretty sure it’s a re-adaptation. I’m looking for WHICH re-adaptation, so I can find it again…
So frustrating! I’d hoped to get a reference to the book that I read, or at least someone who had a similar experience from the same story…
Now I just think I’m going stark raving zonkhey!
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein is the collective title of a trilogy of novels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mystery or thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Three volumes so far have been or are about to be published: Prodigal Son, co-written with Kevin J. Anderson, was published in 2004; City of Night, co-written with Ed Gorman, was published in 2005; and Dead and Alive, written without a co-writer, scheduled to be released in 2009 according to Koontz.
The series is supposedly a modern updating of the mythology of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, although the similarities are mainly superficial. Set in present day New Orleans, the series follows the activities of Victor Frankenstein, now known as Helios, as he continues to create new life forms for his own purposes. Opposed to his activities are a pair of homicide detectives and Frankenstein’s original monster, now known as Deucalion.
While the original Monster was made with parts from dead humans, Victor Frankenstein is now using modern technology to create more creatures, particularly synthetic biology. The new race he is making is constructed and designed from the bottom-up, and can be seen as bio androids, artificial humans made of flesh. Their knowledge and behavior is even based on programs downloaded directly into their brain, which appears to be an advanced wetware computer.
Cuckoo | Mar 02, 2009
Frankenstein is still relatively fresh in my mind, since I read it last year for school. The version I read was based on the second edition of the novel, edited by Shelly herself, and which doesn’t greatly differ from the first. I don’t recall any of what you described in the novel. Frankenstein assembles the monster using human parts he dug up in a graveyard, and he does the same for the female. He does not use anything from any living characters in the book, if memory serves.
Perhaps you read an adaptation of the original by some other author. It’s also possible, and more likely, that what you remember is a cinematic adaptation. You may have seen a movie version long ago, and are unconsciously connecting it to the book.
In any case, the original by Mary Shelly was as I described it above. What you said about the actually methods not being fully described is correct. She doesn’t really emphasize the actual procedure. Again, maybe you remember this from a parody, or some other rewrite of the novel. But in the original, the whole thing is vague, and there are no real descriptions until the monster actually lives.
Nix Gaunt Lestrange | Mar 02, 2009