Young Frankenstein

Name: Young Frankenstein
Director: Mel Brooks
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1974
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

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Comedy
Horror

1974
Mel Brooks
101 mins
PG

Summary

Horror spoof starring Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle. Though shamed by his infamous ancestry, medical-school teacher Frederick Frankenstein goes to Transylvania to receive a family legacy, and it is in that mysterious, far-off land that he dreams of reanimating the dead.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

This loopy send-up of classic chiller clichés from Universal's monster heyday is one of director Mel Brooks's best comedies, and it's also one of the genre's most thorough and successful fright film parodies. Gene Wilder plays the infamous baron's grandson, who copies his ancestor's experiments only to create the singularly inane Peter Boyle. Filmed in sumptuous black and white, and shot on sets used in the 1931 original Frankenstein, Brooks's ingenious tribute is often hysterically funny and always a scream. Madeleine Kahn's "bride", Gene Hackman's blind hermit, Marty Feldman's hunchbacked Igor and the marvellous "Puttin' On the Ritz" musical number add to the fun and give this loving homage real staying power.

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