Ordinary WorldDr. Frederick Frankenstein is content. He has a job as a lecturer at a medical school. He has a beautiful fiancée. Sure, some people still pronounce his name wrong, but nothing is pe...

Castle Frankenstein, TransylvaniaWhere There's a Will, There's a Secret LaboratoryWith the exception of an early sequence in Frederick's medical school classroom, the film is set in Transylvania. W...

Son of ParodyYoung Frankenstein tells a fairly straightforward story. No exploring what it means to be alive through weird narrative jumps or anything like that. Young Frankenstein simply borrows a...

Parody; Comedy; Monster MovieYoung Frankenstein is a parody of monster movies, specifically (this should be obvious) the Frankenstein films of the 1930s starring Boris Karloff. Ironically, by parod...

Aside from the original novel, which had to go throwing around the word Prometheus in there, books and movies starring Frankenstein don't have the most complicated titles. There's Frankenstein (193...

A Classic Case of TransferenceEverything gets a little scrambled at the end of Young Frankenstein, especially brains. In order for the Doctor to right the wrongs, he has to put a little bit of hims...

PG-13Young Frankenstein has more double-entendres than you can shake a dead man's arm at, and with all the schwanstucker business, there are plenty of (very big) single entendres too. Mel Brooks is...