MONSTROUS QUESTION
(Part 3 of 6)
Created by Michael Arruda

This month’s MONSTROUS QUESTION comes to us courtesy of our good friend Pete Dudar.

PETE:  Okay, so what’s the best ‘mad scientist’ movie? Is it FRANKENSTEIN? RE-ANIMATOR? THE FLY? We fans want to know.

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Our panel answers:

DANIEL KEOHANE:

Okay.

So first from my son Andrew: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), because the film is a riot.

Me, maybe I should go with the first movie that popped in my head when I read the question: Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE OR:  HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964). Peter Sellers played Strangelove as such a surreal, hilarious scientist, he brightened this very dark comedy.

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