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A most deserving winner of our 'Horror That Isn't Technically Horror" poll, and arguably the most critically acclaimed film we've ever reviewed. Parasite is fast-paced, chaotic, anxiety-inducing, infuriating, thought-provoking, and hilarious. But who is the true 'parasite' here?

Ep118 - Parasite

The hot GenZ Agatha Christie murder satire you've been waiting for.

Ep119 - Bodies Bodies Bodies

With special guests Bruce Graver & Dorian Greenbaum

Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40
Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-56:04
Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:05-1:16:04
 
Director James Whale
Screenplay William Hurlbut, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley by John Balderston & Hurlbut
Featuring Colin Clive, E.E. Clive, Dwight Frye, Gavin Gordon, O.P. Heggie, Valerie Hobson, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Ernest Thesiger, Douglas Walton
 
SPOILER-FREE SYNOPSIS 
 
1816.  A dark and stormy night.  On Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley have gathered for a night of storytelling.  As Mary spins her tale, a continuation of her earlier story Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus, we shift to the Bavarian Alps, as a windmill burn, Henry Frankenstein is thrown from the roof, and a monster languishes in the watery cellar.  But what’s this?  The monster is rising from his grave and roaming the countryside, in search of food, shelter, and perhaps, a friend.  Meanwhile, Henry has made a speedy recovery, thanks in part to the love of a good woman, and is visited by Dr. Pretorius, a scientist who shares Frankenstein’s interest in regenerating necrotic flesh.  When Pretorius is unable to convince Frankenstein to resume his work, Pretorius hatches a plan to blackmail him – and tame the savage beast within a poor, lonely, and confused monster’s heart.
 
SPOILER-FREE GUEST BIOS

Bruce Graver has taught British Romantic literature and art at Providence College since 1985.  He has prepared scholarly editions of the works of the Wordsworth family, has a special interest in 19th-century 3d photography (The Stereoscopic Picturesque is about to be published), and is a classically trained pianist and tenor who has performed with various New England choirs and chamber ensembles. In good weather, Bruce can be found hiking along the Appalachian Trail, or across the mountains of the English Lake District, where the Wordsworths and Beatrix Potter once lived.  

Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is an ancient historian who teaches postgraduates at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and writes on the history of astrology, divination, and ancient medicine. She has been an amateur genealogist for the past 23 years. Peggy Webling is Dorian’s great-grandaunt, and she grew up hearing family tales about her writing of the play Frankenstein. In 1991, she and her mother discovered a large cache of letters that Peggy and her sisters wrote to Dorian’s great-grandmother over almost 30 years, and Dorian now owns an unpublished archive of Peggy’s letters, papers, manuscripts, and photographs. 

EPISODE NOTES

To find out more about Bruce and Dorian’s book, Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein, visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/peggy-webling-and-the-story-behind-frankenstein-9781350371651.

Music from Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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