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Sky Arts brings a theatrical masterpiece to the small screen this Tuesday with “National Theatre Live: Frankenstein.” This 2011 stage production, directed by Danny Boyle, offers a unique take on Mary Shelley’s classic tale of creation and consequence. The central question: Which actor truly embodied the tortured soul of the Creature: Benedict Cumberbatch or Jonny […]

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein: Part 1 – Jonny Lee Miller...

One Batman moment proves there's a member of the Bat Family he loves even more than Nightwing. Bruce Wayne has had many beloved sidekicks throughout the years, starting with Dick Grayson, the original Robin. Many additional wards and adopted children have expanded the family over time, including Damian Wayne, Batman's biological son.

Fighting alongside Batman has always been dangerous. Dick Grayson, who became Nightwing, has died, or come close, several times. His successor Jason Todd returns from his iconic death at the Joker's hands as the anti-heroic Red Hood. Damian himself dies fighting the villainous Heretic, leading Bruce on an unimaginable quest to restore his son's life.

Batman Was Heartbroken Over Damian's Death

In 2020's Batman/Superman Annual #1, written by Joshua Williamson, the possibility of Damian dying again highlights the true extent of Batman's love for him. In it, imps Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite disagree over who would win in a fight: Batman or Superman.

After the success of 2018's period black comedy The Favourite, which saw Yorgos Lanthimos enlist the talents of Olivia Colman and Emma Stone, the latter reunites with the acclaimed director for his latest project, twisted Frankenstein tale Poor Things. While Lanthimos is known for dense, unsettling psychological dramas, the new film is tackling a new genre for the director, in a sci-fi tinted horror. A newly released image from the film shows Stone star as Bella Baxter, a woman who is brought back from the dead by a mad scientist, albeit with her brain replaced with that of an infant's.

Guillermo del Toro, the filmmaker behind movies like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, is currently working on the production of a live-action adaptation of Frankenstein. The film is reportedly eyeing top talents such as Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac, and Mia Goth to bring the characters to life. Del Toro's involvement in this project goes beyond a mere standalone film. In a recent interview with The Academy's A.frame, J. Miles Dale, a producer involved in the Frankenstein adaptation, hinted at del Toro's broader vision.

According to Dale, del Toro is doing his own monster universe, a concept that was initially explored during his collaboration with Universal. However, the planned Monster Universe didn't materialize. He said:

"At one time, he was going to do the Monster Universe with Universal — Frankenstein's Bride, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Invisible Man, The Wolf Man — and he didn't. We feel like Shape...

The following contains a discussion on depression.

Tim Burton is a masterful director and screenwriter that creates extraordinary characters in peculiar stories. From classics like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands to animated films like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie, he's created a unique style. But all these interesting characters and plots didn't come out of thin air. In fact, like so many others, Burton struggled with depression, and it led to some of his most iconic creations.

Famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Sylvia Path suffered from this illness, and it gave the world pieces of fiction many readers still flock to. Similar stories can be found with artists and musicians. And Burton's history with depression and how it led to Edward Scissorhands is as fascinating as any of the other notable examples.

Related: Report: Pirates of the Caribean's Johnny Depp May Return to Disney

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It’s a relatively slim week in new releases, even by the standards of the ongoing coronavirus shutdown — although there are a few gems to be found, if you hunt hard enough. Families have “Scoob!” which Warner Bros. decided to make available directly via digital, following the recent success of “Trolls World Tour.” And grownups can check out Tom Hardy playing the shell of a notorious gangster in “Capone.” Here are the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.

High-profile on-demand studio and indie offerings:

Capone (Josh Trank)

Distributor: Vertical Entertainment

Where to Find It: Rent on Amazon, iTunes and other on-demand platforms.

In “Capone,” Tom Hardy, as the aging, broken-down, not-all-there Al Capone, acts under a corpse-gray mask of desiccated-mobster makeup. Is “Capone” a fascinatingly idiosyncratic twilight-of-the-mobster drama? Or is it a “Saturday Night Live” sketch with pretensions? It may be a bit of both.

Everybody in TV knows that fortune in a fickle beast, but today is a good day to be Lachlan Murdoch.

After eight long years without topping the rankings, the Masked Singer- and Super Bowl-injected Fox is poised to take first place among adults 18-49 for the 2019-20 television season. While the leaner Fox will score the long-sought win for its Fox Corp CEO and Fox Entertainment boss Charlie Collier, CBS will be having a bit of the been there, done that moment, with the now George Cheeks-overseen network wrapping its 12th consecutive year No. 1 overall in total viewers.

With just under a week to go until this season officially ends May 20, Fox has a 1.7/8 average in the key demo. Not only is that a rise of 13% for the Murdoch-owned outlet compared with its second-place showing for the 2018-19 TV season, the network rich in NFL, WWE SmackDown and unscripted...

In “Capone,” Tom Hardy, as the aging, broken-down, not-all-there Al Capone, acts under a corpse-gray mask of desiccated-mobster makeup, and he speaks in a bullfrog croak so raspy it sounds like he’s only got one or two vocal cords left, and that they’ve been burnt to a crisp. It’s 1946, and Capone’s days as the legendary underworld kingpin of Chicago are long gone; so are the eleven years he spent in prison for tax evasion. He’s now 47, a retired gangster, comfortable but ailing, teetering towards death as he drifts through the days at his creamy mansion in Palm Island, Florida, surrounded by federal agents who are watching his every move.

Written and directed by Josh Trank, “Capone” is a portrait of the mobster as a burnt-out husk. Hardy’s Capone, who everyone calls Fonz (for Alphonse — the use of “Al” is strictly verboten), is blotchy and pasty,...

Mike Flanagan, the director of “The Shining” sequel “Doctor Sleep,” is set to write the adaptation of another Stephen King novel for Warner Bros., his 2014 book “Revival,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Flanagan will write the screenplay adaptation with the option to direct and he and his partner at Intrepid Films Trevor Macy will produce the film.

King’s “Revival” is described as a dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life. It takes place in a small New England town and follows a musician and heroin addict who reconnects with a minister whom he admired as a child. The minister renounced God after an accident killed his wife and child, and the minister now performs dubious experiments with electricity. But the minister is now obsessed with finding a way to communicate with his dead family and...

Make way for the parade! Featuring Brian Trenchard-Smith, Eli Roth, Katt Shea, Thomas Jane, our very own Don Barrett and Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Screams of a Winter Night (1979)

Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game Of Death (1975)

I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)

The Rhythm Section (2020)

Atomic Blonde (2017)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)

The Ipcress File (1965)

Funeral In Berlin (1966)

Extraction (2020)

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

The Mermaid (2016)

Oklahoma! (1955)

Singin’ In The Rain (1953)

Nightcrawler (2014)

I Think We’re Alone Now (2008)

Ghetto Freaks a.k.a. Sign of Aquarius (1970)

Hostel (2005)

Cabin Fever (2002)

Final Cut: Ladies And Gentlemen (2012)

The Movie Orgy (1968)

Gremlins (1984)

The Goonies (1985)

Hell of the Living Dead a.k.a. Night of the Zombies (1980)

Troll 2 (1990)

In The Land Of The Cannibals a.k.a. Land of...

Stars: Barbara Crampton, Kayleigh Gilbert, Bob Levitan, Chaz Bono, Bob Bancroft, Alexa Maris, Michael Pare, Rae Dawn Chong, Monte Markham | Written by Michael Mahin | Directed by Julian Richards

Directed by Julian Richards, Reborn is a Frankenstein-inspired horror with some promising ideas that are never quite fully realised by the script. Barbara Crampton plays faded actress Lena O’Neill, whose problems, her psychiatrist suggests, stem from the fact that she never achieved closure after her baby girl was stillborn, 16 years ago. However, unbeknownst to Lena, her daughter was revived in the morgue due to a freak electical accident and taken home by creepy morgue attendant Ken (Chaz Bono), who named her Tess and raised her with his mother.

On her sixteenth birthday, Tess (Kayleigh Gilbert) demands to know who her real mother is. When Ken tries to molest her, Tess discovers she has the power to control electricity and kills him,...

The stakes have been raised, as Ravensburger has released of Horrified: Universal Monsters, a new board game for classic horror lovers featuring the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, and The Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Now in stores, we have the box art and release details for Horrified: Universal Monsters below, and to learn more, visit Ravensburger's official website:

https://www.ravensburger.us/discover/horrified-game/index.html

"Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man and others have thrilled and terrified horror fans for almost 100 years. This August, Ravensburger raises the stakes and brings spine-chilling fun to your table with the new board game Horrified: Universal Monsters. Strategy is key as players band together to defeat all of your favorite classic monsters including:

• Dracula

• Frankenstein

• Bride of Frankenstein

• The Mummy

• The Invisible Man

• The Wolf Man

• The Creature from the Black Lagoon...

It’s no secret that the popular Stranger Things series has been influenced by several classic films from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. When watching the series it’s pretty easy to see the influence of these films, part of the show’s appeal is how these films are used to tap into the nostalgia of the fans.

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer recently sat down with Wired to shoot a video where they give us a definitive list of almost every movie reference that they used in Stranger Things.

The video is almost 29 minutes long and some of the films they point out include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Thing, Aliens, The Goonies, Sixteen Candles, Risky Business, Stand By Me, Altered States Carrie Cujo, E.T., Escape From New York Firestarter, Frankenstein, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones, It, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Risky Business, Scanners, Star Wars, Super 8,...

Nat Geo is “not moving forward” with its planned “Genius” season on “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, the network’s president Courteney Monroe said on Tuesday.

“We were super excited about Mary Shelley,” Monroe said during the network’s TCA presentation. “The fact is that we just couldn’t find a way to crack it creatively.” Nat Geo had initially slotted Shelley for season 3, before fast-tracking a season about Franklin shortly after her death last summer. At that time, the network was hopeful to do both.

“Our feeling was if we couldn’t do it in a really excellent way, if couldn’t do it right, then we shouldn’t do it,” Monroe continued. “We really tried, we just couldn’t crack it for a limited series.”

Also Read: James Cameron Teams With Nat Geo on Ocean Exploration Series 'Mission OceanX'

The season based on Franklin will premiere in 2020. It follows...

Jim Dandy Jul 21, 2019

The 2019 Eisner Award winners were announced at Sdcc 2019.

The Eisner Awards dinner for 2019 was held on Friday evening at San Diego Comic Con, and the night's big winners were Tom King and Mister Miracle, proving the Eisner selection committee has the same discerning taste as your friends at the Den. King won in every category he was nominated except one, taking home an Eisner for Best Short Story ("Talk of the Saints" in Swamp Thing Winter Special with Jason Fabok); Best Limited Series (with Mitch Gerads for Mister Miracle); Best Graphic Album - Reprint (for the hardcover edition of The Vision with Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Michael Walsh); and Best Writer.

The only category his books were nominated in that did not win was Best Ongoing Comic - Batman lost out to the delightful Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin and Julia Madrigal. Gerads also took...

On July 19, 2019, Benedict Cumberbatch will celebrate his 43rd birthday. The actor began his career on the British stage and then quickly turned to work on U.K. television. His success there brought him to American audiences in the title role of the highly successful television series “Sherlock.” That series has brought him four Emmy nominations for Best Movie/Mini Actor with a win in 2014 for the role. He has received three additional Emmy nominations for “Parade’s End” and “Patrick Melrose.”

SEEAfter 7 losses, Benedict Cumberbatch celebrates two BAFTA wins for ‘Patrick Melrose’

He has received one Oscar nomination to date for his role as mathematician Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game.” He was in a highly competitive Best Actor category that year opposite Steve Carell Bradley Cooper Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) and eventual winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”).

Cumberbatch has continued to return to the British stage playing Hamlet among other roles.

Since Mike Mignola created Hellboy in 1993, he has been a fan favorite character, growing his own mini-universe of characters and spinoff series. Mainstream audiences certainly got to know him in a pair of features from director Guillermo Del Toro, who put his own spin on the world. Over the last decade, Del Toro and star Ron Perlman talked about a third film but one thing or another kept getting in the way. Then, Boom! founder Andrew Cosby and Mignola got to work on a script and Del Toro walked, followed by Perlman so it morphed into a full-fledged reboot.

Did we need a reboot? No. Did we need this film at all? Probably not and the poor box office has shut the doorway to Hell for subsequent installments. Perhaps he works best in print with Mignola being the sole voice.

David Harbour is having a moment. This month he had...

Stranger Things’ David Harbour plays Frankenstein-as-monster in Netflix’s bizarre yet entertaining mockumentary.

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Who knew that David Harbour, currently enjoying a career high as Stranger Things’ gruff sheriff Jim Hopper, had such a knack for absurdist comedy? Or that “David Harbour III” (a fictionalized version of himself) had a dark family legacy bound up in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the theatah!

Watching Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein, Netflix’s odd half-hour mockumentary about a made-for-tv play that ended in tragedy, feels like watching a friend’s weird indie show, or—perhaps more universal—your friend showing you something random-but-mesmerizing like “Too Many Cooks” on YouTube. After emerging from the rabbit hole, you’re entertained, to be sure, but you also wonder What the hell did I just watch?

In this case, the answer would seem to be: a send-up of the made-for-tv play and other...

There’s plenty to admire about Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein, not the least of which is its brevity. Netflix, after all, is a great offender in the “too much content” era in which we live—they gave 13 episodes to an adaptation of Green Eggs And Ham, for Christ’s sake—and we wouldn’t be surprised if…...

I'm genuinely surprised that Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein is debuting on a thing like Netflix, and not randomly during the 4-4:30 Am slot on Adult Swim. Directed by Daniel Gray Longino and written by John Levenstein (Arrested Development), this oddball mockumentary runs a brisk 28 minutes and doesn't appear to be attached to anything other than the idea that watching David Harbour do his best blowhard Orson Welles impression for a half-hour would be really, really funny. And you know what? It is. Nailed it. A+ for absurdity. I don'…...

One thing the new mockumentary “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein” does quite well is prove that there are perks to appearing on a streaming service’s signature hit.

David Harbour, the stolid and familiar presence from Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” is given the opportunity to cut loose here with a broad, loopy half-hour that feels a bit like one long comedy sketch, with all that implies. He’s evidently having a great deal of fun playing his fictional late father, a pompous theater actor who acted in his own play about Dr. Frankenstein and recorded the piece for posterity. But even half an hour is a generous amount of time to give to a story that feels, well, sketchy, with reversals whose pile-up is more novel than truly funny and with jokes that feel underwritten at best.

Harbour also plays himself in the present day, working to uncover more...

If trading cards are the ultimate Night of the Living Dead collectible, I'd also argue that Night of the Living Dead is the ultimate non-sports trading card. And it's because of the autographs. Stay with me...

The non-sports trading card scene was introduced to the subject of horror movies as early as the 1960s, with Nu Cards' Horror Monster Series and Topps' Monster Laffs, followed by You'll Die Laughing and Shocking Laffs in the 1970s.

What these cards had in common is that they depicted numerous early horror and contemporary B-horror movies in a satirical format. It seems that comedy was the only safe way to deliver horror trading cards to kid consumers of the era. Following blowback from the ban on Topps' famous 1962 sci-fi horror set, Mars Attacks, printers weren't taking any more chances.

It wasn't until the 1980s that individual horror flicks got their own dedicated, non-satirical...

"Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein", is a new comedy TV movie, directed by Daniel Gray Longino, as a Netflix 'Playhouse Featurette', starring Kate Berlant, David Harbour and O-Lan Jones, streaming July 16, 2019 on Netflix:

"...David Harbour delves into the enigmatic history of his legendary acting family, as he examines his father's legacy and role in a made-for-tv play..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein"...

Available for the first time on vinyl, the score for Brian De Palma's film Carlito's Way by composer Patrick Doyle is being released on July 12th exclusively through Barnes and Noble. This package has artwork created by Gary Pullin along with LP labels and a back-cover reference to the famous pool hall scene.

"I am extremely fortunate and proud to have composed the score for Carlito's Way for the extraordinary auteur, Brian de Palma. I recognized the moment I first saw the film that it was a masterpiece and time has indeed confirmed this. Every new generation discovers Carlito's Way and the enthusiasm and appreciation over the years for the film, for the score and for the work of all the other departments has been extremely flattering. This film has become a classic and to have my score be part of it is a tremendous honor. Thank you, Brian,...

Frankenstein’S Monster’S Monster, Frankenstein Trailer Debut In this new mockumentary, join “Stranger Things” actor David Harbour as he uncovers lost footage from his father’s televised stage play, Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein. Expect the unexpected in this over-the-top and often dramatic(ish) reimagined tale of mystery and suspense. With appearances by Alfred Molina, Kate Berlant, and more …

The post Netflix Trailer Debut // Frankenstein’S Monster’S Monster, Frankenstein appeared first on Hnn | Horrornews.net.

Natalie Zutter Jul 8, 2019

Here are some of our favorite TV shows, books, and movies that tell a time travel story through letters, radio, and DVDs.

The epistolary novel—that is, a story told through letters—dates back all the way to the 1400s in the earliest versions of the form, counting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as famous examples.

But what about the first time travel narrative told through correspondence? Could it have begun with a short story in 1959—or might one theorize that the epistolary time travel story will exist, has always existed, throughout the timestream? That certainly feels like the case with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar’s new novella This Is How You Lose the Time War, featuring a pair of transdimensional pen pals.

At any rate, the form lends itself to a twisty story filled with...

1. “Orange Is the New Black” Season 7 (available July 26)

Why Should I Watch? Well, Season 7 marks the end of “Orange Is the New Black,” which either makes for a compelling argument to get caught up or a reasonable rationale to avoid it altogether. Speaking to the first point, Jenji Kohan’s landmark Netflix original has helped usher in a more diversified TV space, draw attention to a problematic prison system, and provide truckloads of Emmys to the very worthy Uzo Aduba. Toss in the fact it helped elevate more than a few key voices set to shape television’s future, including Stephen Falk (“You’re the Worst”) and S.J. Clarkson (who’s helming the upcoming “Game of Thrones” spinoff), and it’s been a significant series since it debuted in mid-2013. But it’s also a long series. Each season consists of 13 hour-long episodes, and the most recent entries have highlighted Netflix’s bloating problems.

The UK’s biggest and boldest horror and fantasy film festival, Frightfest, is celebrating its 20th bloody year. This year Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from August 22 – August 26; and will be hosting a record-breaking Seventy-eight(!) films, embracing fourteen countries and spanning six continents, this year’s five-day fear-a-thon includes 20 World, 20 International / European and 28 UK Premieres.

From the press release:

As previously announced, this year’s festivities begin with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson’s deviously edgy stunner Come To Daddy, starring Elijah Wood and reaches its bloody conclusion with the World premiere of Abner Pastoll’s superbly crafted crime story, A Good Woman Is Hard To Find. Other main screen international attractions include producer Guillermo del Toro and director André Øvredal’s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, producer Sam Raimi and director Alexandre Aja’s gruesome ‘gator yarn Crawl,...

David Harbour has more than Stranger Things hitting Netflix this month. The actor also stars in Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein, a truly strange mockumentary in which Harbour plays himself, and also his own father. Harbour sets out to gain insight into his father by studying a TV production of Frankenstein unlike any created before. Watch the Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, […]

The post ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein’ Trailer: David Harbour Plays Himself appeared first on /Film.

"My father had a compulsion to court disaster..." Netflix has debuted an official trailer for a comedy short, mockumentary special titled Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein, starring actor David Harbour from Hellboy and "Stranger Things". In the film, Harbour delves into the enigmatic history of his legendary acting family, as he examines his father's legacy and role in a made-for-tv play called – of course – "Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein". With appearances by Alfred Molina, Kate Berlant, Heather Lawless, Michael Lerner, and more special guests, Harbour explores the depths of his family's acting lineage to gain insight into his father's legacy -- all in 28-minutes. This looks super kooky, creative, and hilarious; it's cool to see Netflix developing comedic ideas like this. More mockumentaries! Enjoy this. Here's the first trailer for Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein, on Netflix's YouTube: When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic,...

Joseph Baxter Jul 2, 2019

Stranger Things’ David Harbour plays his “father” in this Netflix mockumentary about an ill-fated Frankenstein TV play.

Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein is a title that will make a lot more sense if you accept the fact that “Frankenstein’s Monster” – not “Frankenstein” – is the actual name of Mary Shelley’s resurrected title character. Consequently, it will then become clear to you that this Netflix offering is not an adaptation of said story, but, rather, a mockumentary about a TV production of it, with which Stranger Things’ David Harbour creates an eccentric pseudo-history.

Indeed, Harbour briefly put aside his Stranger Things small town police chief Jim Hopper, to play, well, David Harbour – a fictionalized version of his “father,” named David Harbour Jr., an eccentric thespian resembling a late-life Orson Welles who, via 40-year-old lost footage, is depicted in the midst of a hilariously quixotic attempt to...

If you can wrap your head around the title, you might just enjoy the twisty meta-nature of this new Netflix series. In this new mockumentary, Stranger Things actor David Harbour plays himself as he uncovers long-lost footage from his father's televised stage play, Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein. I don't 100% understand what's going on in this show, even with the first look provided by a new trailer, but I am eager to find out more. And I also never knew that I wanted Harbour to play Orson Welles in a biopic for the …...

Netflix hasn’t officially declared this July as David Harbour Month, but there’s one more piece of evidence suggesting that it may just happen regardless.

The service unveiled the first official extended look at “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein,” a mockumentary with a premise as convoluted as its title. Harbour, who also will be soon seen in the third season of the runaway hit series “Stranger Things,” plays a fictionalized version of himself who finds video evidence of a complicated family history on the stage.

In this twisting created family history, Harbour’s dad was a misunderstood acting genius who put on televised productions of theatrical works. One recently excavated tape shows the elder Harbour in a role as the classic literary Dr. Frankenstein, who just so happens to be pretending to be a monster at the same time. This aging actor sure has a Wellesian penchant for impeccable diction,...

Netflix has released a trailer for a funny looking new documentary film called Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein. The movie stars Stranger Things actor David Harbour as he uncovers lost footage from his father's televised stage play, Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein.

Here’s the synopsis that was shared for the amusing-looking movie:

Expect the unexpected in this over-the-top and often dramatic(ish) reimagined tale of mystery and suspense. With appearances by Alfred Molina, Kate Berlant, and more special guests, Harbour explores the depths of his family's acting lineage to gain insight into his father's legacy - all in 28-minutes.

The film was directed by Daniel Gray Longino (Kroll Show and PEN15) from a script written by John Levenstein (Arrested Development and Kroll Show).

Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein launches globally on Netflix on July 16th, 2019.

David Harbour is getting stranger for Netflix’s upcoming mockumentary “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein.” If that title didn’t already make it clear this project would be even weirder than Harbour’s “Stranger Things,” the trailer certainly will, as it features Harbour playing very dramatic versions of both himself and his “father,” David Harbour Jr.

In the 1-minute, 31-second clip above, Harbour explains how he’s been uncovering “lost footage” of his dad and his made-for-tv play, “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein,” to learn about his “father.” The trailer gives you a tiny taste of what’s in this “found footage,” which is the not-so-stable, acting genius David Harbour Jr. and his dreams for his masterpiece.

(In real life, Harbour’s dad, Ken, sells commercial real estate in Westchester County, New York.)

The streaming service says you should “expect the unexpected in this over-the-top and often dramatic...

A new mockumentary coming to Netflix invites you to join David Harbour as he uncovers lost footage from his father’s televised stage play, Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein. Ahead of its arrival later this month, you can check out the trailer below. You’ll also find the project’s key art underneath the trailer. “Expect the unexpected in […]...

Netflix has released its first trailer for the campy mockumentary Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein.

The cast includes David Harbour, Alex Ozerov, Kate Berlant, Mary Woronov, Alfred Molina, Heather Lawless and Michael Lerner.

The mockumentary, written by Arrested Development producer John Levenstein, follows Harbour as he (the fictional version of himself) digs into the found footage of his father’s televised stage adaptation of Frankenstein. The trailer offers just a glimpse into the faux-dramatic spoof, with scenes of the found footage of the TV play intercut with Harbour being warned, "There's a lot of things about your father you ...

So what can you enjoy from the temperature-controlled sanctuary of the living room? Streaming-service subscribers who can’t take the heat (literally) can check out a cult sensation’s (second) second coming, a revival of a rom-com classic and a violent elbow to superhero TVs ribs. Plus Netflix trots out one of big blockbuster shows — welcome back, Stranger Things! — and says goodbye to one of its first huge hits. Here’s what coming streaming-wise for July. (For other TV options, go here.)

Another Life (Netflix, July 25th)

When an alien artifact crash-lands on Earth,...

Aziz Ansari is coming back to TV screens. And soon.

In a surprise announcement, Netflix revealed on Monday that the latest stand-up special from the “Master of None” co-creator will be dropping Tuesday, July 9. “Aziz Ansari Right Now,” his fifth comedy special, was filmed as part of the Brooklyn performances of his ongoing international tour, “Road to Nowhere.”

It’s Ansari’s first project available to the public since the release of “Master of None” Season 2. Shortly after the awards circuit tour ended in early 2018, a controversial article detailing sexual misconduct put the show and Ansari’s career on hiatus. According to reports from those same Brooklyn shows back in May, Ansari addresses those allegations as part of his hour-long set. Earlier shows in the tour, even when not referring to the incident directly, did seem to showcase a contrite Ansari, even when couched in a comedy context.

Spike Jonze directed “Aziz Ansari Right Now,...

Netflix has confirmed that 44 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in Ju;y including: season 3 of “Stranger Things”; season 4 of “Queer Eye”; season 7 of “Orange is the New Black”; and season 11 of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

Among the new films on offer are: several installments of “Bangkok Love Stories”; a remake of “Point Blank” starring Anthony Mackie; the documentary “The Great Hack”‘; and the mockumentary “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein.”

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in July 2019.

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“Designated Survivor: 60 Days” (Netflix Original)

“Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room” (Netflix Original)

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

“Astro Boy”

“Caddyshack”

“Caddyshack 2”

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005)

“Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke”

“Cloverfield”

“Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain”

“Frozen River”

“Inkheart...

…And not all Frankensteins were created equal. Case in point: Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), the fourth film in the series from Hammer and one that’s decidedly different and sufficiently weird enough to set itself apart from the pack. This isn’t your granddad’s Frankenstein.

Now, I’m still playing catch up with Hammer, especially the Frankenstein series; but the biggest recurring theme seems to be the Baron (once again assayed by Peter Cushing)’s assholery, and his utter disregard for existing human life while chasing his re-animating dream. Fear not; Created Woman does not disappoint on this front, in fact it introduces new colors into the Hammer lexicon that prevents it from being a musty retread.

Released Stateside in March with a U.K. rollout in June, Created Woman was not a hit with critics or filmgoers, although Martin Scorcese is a big fan, so it’s got that...

Netflix has everyone’s Fourth of July entertainment covered.

Hitting the streaming platform on July 4 is “Stranger Things” season three, which is finally returning two years after its predecessor. Martin Scorsese fans are also sure to be excited once they see four of the director’s films (“Taxi Driver” “Mean Streets” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?”) ready to stream on the first day of the month.

Additionally, Fourth of July celebrants can look back on history with Netflix’s own revisionist features such as “Inglourious Basterds” before enjoying some family fun with more kid friendly options like “Megamind” and “Princess and the Frog.”

See the full list of titles below.

July 1

“Designated Survivor: 60 days”

“Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room”

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

“Astro Boy”

“Caddyshack”

“Caddyshack 2”

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005)

“Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke”

“Cloverfield...

Danny Boyle is finally talking about James Bond. The filmmaker exited the film in August of last year after months of chatter about his involvement, and production is currently underway with Cary Fukunaga as director and “Fleabag” creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a script polisher. The Brit breakout has intimated that the bulk of her work on the script isn’t just to add a “female voice” to the continued adventures of the super-spy and his various female cohorts, but instead to liven up the entire enterprise.

Now, Boyle has indicated that he wouldn’t have gone that route. In a new interview with The Independent, Boyle was asked about the lack of female characters across his entire filmmaking canon, including his new release “Yesterday,” out later this week. On some level, it’s an unfair question: While Jacob Stolworthy writes that, of Boyle’s films, “only one has...

In the 200 years since it was published, we've seen numerous adaptations (and countless movies influenced by) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Directed by J. Searle Dawley and produced by Thomas Edison, the first screen adaptation of the classic story came almost one century after Shelley's book was first published, and it's now been newly restored and released online by the Library of Congress.

As detailed in a fascinating post by Mike Mashon on the Library of Congress' website (via Bloody Disgusting), the Frankenstein (1910) nitrate print was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2014, nearly one decade after the death of its previous owner, Alois F. “Al” Dettlaff.

After residing in Wisconsin for decades, the print was brought to the Library of Congress' film preservation lab, where it was given a "2K scan in advance of photochemical preservation," followed by a digital restoration that was made complete with help from the Edison...

Ahead of the UK premiere screening of Parallel at Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween – which takes place at Cineworld, Leicester Square on November 3rd 2018, director Isaac Ezban discusses the film, making his first English-language feature and directing from someone else’s script.

Parallel is the first film you didn’t write yourself (Scott Blaszak did) but it feels so like one from your heart – dealing with the ramifications of identity, life-shattering decision-making and the possibilities of an endless universe as also explored in The Incident and The Similars?

Yes, that its right, I had many firsts on this one: first movie in English, first movie outside of my country with a completely new crew, first studio film, first film in Canada, and first film I didn´t write, and all those firsts added up to an amazing experience. After The Incident and The Similars, I really had the curiosity to do sci-fi in English,...

Michael Ahr Oct 30, 2018

Fox is looking to bring an adaptation of Dean Koontz’s conspiracy thriller, Strangers, to the small screen.

Fox has chosen to adapt Strangers by prolific New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz with a script order with penalty for a series based on the 1986 novel. The script will be written by creator Jeff Davis of Criminal Minds fame, and the network will co-produce the series with Sony Pictures Television. Koontz is set to executive produce along with Josh Berman and Chris King.

Strangers tells the tale of a group of people brought together to the Tranquil Motel by seemingly unrelated maladies who find that they are missing memories from the summer of the previous year. The group includes an author who suffers from somnambulism, a surgeon with panic attacks that induce a fugue state, and a priest who is afraid of the dark.

The series synopsis...

I did it, guys! One of the goals I set for myself this October was to go through the entire Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection box set, because it felt like the perfect opportunity to revisit so many classic films, but also fill in a few gaps for me as a fan, as there were a handful of films I just never had the opportunity to watch before this set existed. And while it took up pretty much every second of my free time this month, making time for the Complete Collection felt like I was getting to experience my very own film studies on some of the most influential and unforgettable horror movies to ever grace the silver screen, plus it also helped get me into the mood for this year’s Halloween season.

For Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection, Uni sets the stage for all the...

We've been lucky to host some pretty amazing giveaways over the years, but this Halloween, Universal has helped us to provide an amazing prize for one lucky reader. Back in August they released a massive 21-disc, 30-film complete set of the Universal Monster series from 1931 through the '50s, and we are giving away one of these sets to you! Find the details of the giveaway at the bottom of this post.   For those of you who are avid collectors, much of this set will be familiar. Essentially what they've done is to package the individual Monster sets from the last couple of years which compiled the series of Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and Mummy films and added recent additions to the collection including...

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The cry came forth from a dark corner of my living room as it usually does this time of year, as it does sometimes during other parts of the year too. It was my wife, shrieking from the depths of her soul, articulating a cry of despair and disbelief: “You’re watching this again??!!” As the familiar strains of James Bernard’s magnificent score rose from beneath the blood-red Warner Bros.-Seven Arts insignia and the subsequent and equally scarlet opening credits, my wife didn’t even need to look up from her book to realize what was happening. It was the week before Halloween, and therefore time for my in-the-neighborhood-of-annual dose of Terence Fisher’s masterful, terrifying Hammer classic, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), the fifth in a line of gloriously lurid reiterations of the Frankenstein myth, the pinnacle of the series for the studio, and a movie I...

It’s been a while since we went alphabetical here at Roobla, so to get you even more in the mood for October 31, here’s a Halloween special. There’s the odd tenuous link here and there, but we hope you find it fun and perhaps even a little useful…

A is for Alien. Ridley Scott‘s 1979 groundbreaking sci-fi horror remains just that.

B is for Bram Stoker. Okay, obviously the Dracula author never had a hand in any screenplays, but imagine how much poorer cinema in general would be if that book had never been written.

C is for castles, They’ve been the setting for many a horror movie, and with good reason: does it get more spine-tingling?

D is for disappointing. When was the last time you went to the cinema to see a new release and were genuinely scared?

E is for Elm Street. You wouldn...