Frankenstein (1931)

Director: James Whale
Country: United States

Frankenstein is the ultimate gothic scifi classic, a legendary novel that has reached the levels of the Greek mythology among contemporary scientists, filmmakers, writers and musicians, the mad scientist "playing God" and the monster who turns against its own father.

Many films have been inspired by this piece of work such as Blade Runner, Terminator 2, Re-Animator, Robocop, Body Parts, Frankenhooker, Frankenweenie and even TV comedies like "Weird Science". In the music department we can find Edgar Winter's song "Frankenstein" or Eddie Van Halen's custom guitar made with different guitar parts and named after the monster. In the science and techonology area we are living in a Frankenstenian-era: robots, drones and computers rule the manufacturing world, and according to some experts they soon will fight in warfields making their own decisions just like in fuckin Terminator 2: the Judgement Day. 

We also can see crazy scientific stuff since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in the 90's to nowadays manipulation of genetic information in embryos and plants. Humanity and some scientists have gone crazy just like Victor Frankenstein, and society in itself is another version of him, we have created monsters through history either ideologically or physically and curiously enough, Victor and the Monster happen to be identified with the same name: Frankenstein, because the line gets blurred and we don't know who is the real villian here. 

Why do "Frankenstein" gets killed? and why does society kill him? Ironically that turns society into what the monster is, in other words, a ruthless murderer. Did Hitler create stone-cold Germans or the Germans created a crazy-murderer such as Hitler?; Whose gotta be judged by trial? autonomous killer machines or their creators behind a computer? These and more questions will be answered in the short run, but in the meantime in 2018, we are commemorating two hundred years since Mary Shelley wrote this fantastic novel and it is beautiful and terryfing at the same time how the story itself as the Monster in the film IS ALIVE!