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The Frankencast
The Frankencast is a podcast about Frankenstein, and so much more. Join Anthony Bowman and Eric Velazquez every week as they discuss one Frankenstein movie, recapping the plot, analyzing the cultural relevance, and obsessing over Spinning Science Wheels and Flappy Bats. And just generally having a lot of fun along the way.
Episodes
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Patreon Preview: Alice Cooper - "Teenage Frankenstein" & "Feed My Frankenstein"
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83. Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) dir. Jesús Franco
What can you say about this movie? It has so little to say, that you could write out all of the dialogue on a post-it note. But it does have so many flappy…
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Patreon Preview: Frankenbook Club: Kiersten White - The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein Pt. 1
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82. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) dir. Al Adamson
With a title like this, you know there's gonna be a MONSTER FIGHT! It's gonna take a while to get there, though. But first, we're gonna get the gang (of…
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BONUS Pt. 1: "A Country of Eternal Light" - Jennifer Donohue (from Patreon)
This week at patreon.com/thefrankencast we're discussing this beautiful and visceral short from Jennifer Donohue. She recently shared the story with us and we…
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BONUS Pt. 2: Frankencast After Dark: "A Country of Eternal Light" - Jennifer Donohue (from Patreon)
We're really excited about Jennifer Donohue's "A Country of Eternal Light" so we may have gone a little overboard. One ongoing segment we have over at…
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81. Assignment Terror (1970) dir. Tulio Demicheli
This week we're talking about the sequel to Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, and even though this movie sounds like a James Bond knock-off, it actually does have…
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Patreon Preview: The Munsters episodes 19 & 20
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80. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968) dir. Enrique López Eguiluz
This week, we're discussing an incredibly inaccurately titled film (aka La Marca Del Hombre Lobo) that features way more Mysterious Puddles than Frankensteins…
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Patreon Preview - Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein: the Musical
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79. Sky Sharks (2020) dir. Marc Fehse
We're finishing up our Franken-war movies series, going out with a bang! Join us as we fly the unfriendliest skies, watch some Zazi's do a Ghost Ship, and Eric…
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Patreon Preview - The Munsters episodes 17 & 18
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SKY SHARKS TRAILER
COMING NEXT WEEK: SKY SHARKS! THEY FIGHT, THEY BITE, THEY KICK SOME SERIOUS FIN! SKY SHARKS!
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78. Overlord (2018) dir. Julius Avery
This movie is jam-packed full of killer Nazi zombies, but after last week, it actually seems pretty grounded. It's basically a good ol' fashioned hard-boiled…
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Patreon Preview - Struck By Lightning
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77. Frankenstein's Army (2013) dir. Richard Raaphorst
Feeling some deja vu? This time it's a different Frankenstein, and a different army. This time our monsters are a lot less friendly. But that makes sense when…
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BONUS: "Anything So Utterly Destroyed" - Elizabeth R. McClellan (from Patreon)
This week over on patreon.com/thefrankencast we discussed this absolutely brilliant narrative poem by Elizabeth R. McClellan that explores the thoughts of…
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76. Army of Frankensteins (2013) dir. Ryan Bellgardt
This is definitely the first movie we've covered that features an American president. And maybe the only movie ever to feature an American president getting…
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75. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman
Let's do the timewarp again!! It's high time that we talked about this high-camp, super-queer classic musical that has been breaking barriers and records and…
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74. Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein (2019) dir. Daniel Gray Longino
If you have a Chekhov's gun joke sitting out at the beginning of a podcast, you know eventually it's going to go off. And all of our Chekhov's humor has…
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73. Brian and Charles (2022) dir. Jim Archer
The Throuple is all together for the very first time! We had to bring in The Bride from over on the Patreon so we could all talk about this weirdly wonderful…
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72. Frankenhooker (1990) dir. Frank Henenlotter
Wanna date? It's February, so we're looking for love on the streets of New York, home of super drugs and reanimated sex workers. Join us as we explode like…
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71. Child's Play (2019) dir. Lars Klevberg
Everyone cue up The Buddi Song and get ready to sing along! We're taking a look at the much-maligned attempt to reboot the Child's Play franchise. It turns out…
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70. M3GAN (2022) dir. Gerard Johnstone
We're doing something a little different this week as we went to visit America's homicidal robot sweetheart in the theater. Join us for this spoiler-lite…
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69. Frankenstein 2000 (1992) dir. Joe D'Amato
CW: This is another one with scenes of SA. It's basically a classic revenge film in the same vein as I Spit On Your Grave but with more psychic powers, and not…
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68. Frankenstein 90 (1984) dir. Alain Jessua
CONTENT WARNING: SA, grooming(?), just general bad vibes. Like, so many content warnings. The Frankenwarp has sent us all the way to the year 1990 in the…
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67. Frankenstein '80 (1972) dir. Mario Mancini
The Frankenwarp continues as we travel all the way to the year 1980, when Dr. Frankenstein grew a mustache, EVERYONE smoked, and there was a secret lab behind…
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66. Frankenstein 1970 (1958) dir. Howard W. Koch
KARLOFF'S BACK, BABY! And this time, it's personal. Join us as we make excuses for SO many missing people, ominously threaten our best friend, and throw away…
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65. Pinocchio (2022) dirs. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson
We've been threatening to talk about a Pinocchio movie for a while now, because Pinocchio is TOTALLY a Frankenstein story. And what better one to start with…
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64. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick
Merry Christmas, fiends! We're concluding Decem-Burton with a movie not actually directed by Tim Burton, but which he still had a big hand in. It's a goth…
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63. Edward Scissorhands (1990) dir. Tim Burton
This week we're continuing Decem-Burton by gazing longingly out of our snowglobe-esque window and putting on our best grandparent voices to tell the tale of…
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62. Frankenweenie (2012) dir. Tim Burton
It's time for Decem-Burton! We're kicking things off with a more recent film from Burton's catalog: the 2012 full-length stop-motion remake of his 1984 short…
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61. Last Frankenstein (1991) dir. Takeshi Kawamura
We're headed to Japan once again with an absolutely wild movie that made for one of our most fun and fascinating conversations to date. We're joined by our…
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BONUS: A Conversation with Refe Tuma (author, Frances and the Monster)
We're back with another lovely author chat! This week we are chatting with Refe Tuma, the thoughtful and entertaining writer of Frances and the Monster. This…
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60. Van Helsing (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers
Well, there was a Wanted poster in dodgy French that told us that Van Helsing is Wanted, and we were happy to provide. If you're not happy about it, blame The…
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59. Monster Mash (2000) dir. Guido Manuli
We've still got a little bit more Monster Mashing today. This time, with an animated feature from a way-past-its-prime DIC Entertainment. This hour-long…
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58. Monster Mash (1995) dir. Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow
The guests included Wolf Man, Dracula, and his... wife? Join us as we get stuck in a storm and trapped in a spooky old house with a bunch of freaks who seem to…
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57. Monster High (2022) dir. Todd Holland
This week the Frankencast is going back to high school and we're enjoying it way more than we did the first time around. Maybe because of all the monsters. We…
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BONUS: A Conversation with Addie Tsai (author, Unwieldy Creatures)
In today's Very Special Episode, we are joined by the delightful Addie Tsai, author of the new novel Unwieldy Creatures. It's a brilliant meta retelling of…
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56. Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein (1953) dir. Isa Karamah
This week we're continuing our streak of foreign remakes of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. This week we're headed to Egypt to watch this wacky comedy…
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55. Frankenstein, El Vampiro y Compañia (1962) dir. Alfredo Salazar
All October, we're celebrating our one-year anniversary. So this week we're looking back to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein by watching this Mexican…
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54. The Munsters (2022) dir. Rob Zombie
It's finally here, fiends! We've been talking about this movie for months and watching Munsters films for weeks to prepare ourselves. Last week we did our…
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53. "Edison's Frankenstein" (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley/One Year Anniversary Extravaganza
Well, fiends, we did it. You monsters have stuck with us through a full year of this nonsense. We'll hopefully have many more years to come, but first, let's…
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BONUS: "And I'm joined as always by..."
"Hello, and welcome once again to the Frankencast. I'm the Mad Scientist Anthony Bowman, my pronouns are he/him and I'm joined as always by..." Hey fiends…
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BONUS: The Munsters (2022) Live Reaction/Commentary Track
It's the Munsters Day we've all been waiting for, fiends! We've obviously been leading up to this for a while, so you know we were going to have to do…
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BONUS: A Conversation with Tim Kirk (dir. Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein)
Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein is such a unique and exciting film and we've been waiting to discuss it since we started the show. And now we're…
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52. Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015) dir. Tim Kirk
This week, we're Frankensteining a Frankenstein film in the interest of a wild behind-the-scenes murder mystery. Join us as we barricade ourselves in the…
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51. Terror of Frankenstein (1977) dir. Calvin Floyd
It's a podcast mashup as your favorite Horror Hosts are joined by Hayden Orr and John Howle (aka 2/3s of The Last Book on the Shelf podcast) to discuss the…
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50. The Munsters' Revenge (1981) dir. Don Weis
It's time for one last hurrah with (most of) the original Munsters cast! We'll go to a creepy wax museum full of crime robots, meet the dreadfully annoying…
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49. Mockingbird Lane (2012) writ. Bryan Fuller
It's Munsters Month part 3, and we're moving on to the most modern version of the Munsters we've seen so far. And the least familiar. Herman's not exactly a…
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48. Here Come the Munsters (1995) dir. Robert Ginty
We're continuing Munsters Month by going to the 90s in this prequel story of how our favorite family of monsters made their way from Transylvania to LA. Join…
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47. Munster, Go Home! (1966) dir. Earl Bellamy
It's Munsters Month, baby! Join America's favorite monster family as they take a cruise to England. Listen in as we get mixed up in an aristocratic rivalry…
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46. Kyoufu Densetsu - Kaiki! Frankenstein (1981) dir. Yûgo Serikawa
The Frankencast is headed back to Japan, anime style! And we're joined by Very Special Guest and long-time Friend of the Show, Hayden Orr, from The Last Book…
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45. Weird Science (1985) dir. John Hughes
Are Gary and Wyatt the most successful scientists we've covered so far? Join us for the feel-good Frankenstein film of the 80s, complete with all of the…
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44. Frankenstein: the True Story Pt. 2 (1973) dir. Jack Smight
Wait, you mean there's MORE True Story? And it's even truer than before! Join us as we witness the slander of real-life human John Polidori, as he's turned…
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It's the gayest Frankenstein story of all time! Join us as we take a look at the whirlwind romance between a mad scientist and his special creation. We're…
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BONUS: A Conversation with Julian David Stone (author, It's Alive!)
In today's Very Special Episode, we are joined by Julian David Stone, the fascinating author of It's Alive! We talk with Julian about his incredible novel that…
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42. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) dir. Rudy De Luca
After we had such a rough time in Spain last week, this week we're headed to Transylvania, where nothing bad ever happens! Join us as we talk about old-school…
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41. The Skin I Live In (2011) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault and other violations of bodily autonomy. There's a lot of bad stuff happening in the world…
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Patreon Teaser
As you've all probably heard by now, we have launched a Patreon! The first three episodes are alive now and we will be releasing four bonus episodes there each…