Halloween Bonus - The SPOOKIEST Film Ever Made!
A gift to my subscribers
Happy Halloween! If you’re looking for something spook-spook-spookifying to watch tonight, have I got a treat for you! In 2010 I had the honor of participating in the full restoration of Thomas Edison’s 1910 15-minute silent film masterpiece “Frankenstein.”
To mark the movie’s centennial, we restored it with Edison’s original title cards. This is the only true and genuine version of the first-ever motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
I post this on Twitter every Halloween, and as this is my first All Hallows’ Eve with a Substack, I figured I’d treat my dutiful subscribers to something that’s both a masterful horror film AND a piece of filmic historiography. So, pop some corn, turn off the lights, and have the scare-scare-scariest Halloween ever!
Enjoy! And if you do, Buy Me a Beer.
Really good flick and great narrative. Not what I was expecting but thought it was very well crafted and amusing.
Ah yes, my famous cousin David Benitez Cole from Guadalajara, MX, worked on this project. A truly gifted mf. But unfortunately 2012 seemed to be the peak of his career. The following year saw him get chainsawed to death in Sinaloa by a tall, anorexic Basque-derived woman who had a propensity for chihuahua bestiality.
Si guey, Rip my carnal, my primo