Too Scary; Didn't Watch - FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

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goods. We're all out of the ordinary. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy. And you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. Except this week. Except for this week because we have to be brave because Sammy is out this week,

which is devastating. We know. Sammy, how dare you? How dare you? You're supposed to be at work right now. You're supposed to be at work right now. We're furious. We're not. We can never be. She's traveling and that's lovely to do. She's actually so close to me. I can feel it in the air. I love you guys being on the same coast. It's like, I mean, it's just fun. We can text first thing in the morning. We can text late, late at night. That is nice. I mean, I can always text you guys late at night. But yeah. No, I was jealous. You both were going to bed at the same time and it was hours until I was going to go to bed and I was really jealous. I was like, I want to be going to bed.

You can just go to bed, you know? Sometimes you can just get in bed and go to bed. I know, but I had plans and I was really, I really wanted to be in bed instead. I know. Plans do really get in the way, don't they? Luckily, I never have plans. To not have plans. I do, you know, seeing people is also nice, but I mean, yeah, for you know. A little bit of both. Little for me, little for you. You know. You got a balance. But I do subscribe to the belief that getting into bed is different than going to sleep. Oh, yeah. You can get

into bed. Getting into bed is any time of the day. That's you time. Yeah. You can do whatever you want in there. In fact, I get upset when I am so tired that I must immediately go to sleep after getting into bed. Because I'm like, but I can't do my getting to bed things. Yeah. I can't like read my book. I can't just kind of hang out for little bit. Yeah. Read the headlines. I try not to do that. I actually get mad at him when he's like reading news articles right before bed and then tries to talk to me about them. I'm like, please don't do that. Please, I don't want to know. He was reading the gooning article right before bed. He was reading the gooning article and he tried to tell me about it and I was like, please, sir, stop. Yeah. That's a lot to take in right before you shut your brain down for the night.

I can't. I would be staring at the ceiling. Thank God. Yeah. Thank God. He didn't. You waited. Yeah. Oh, my God. Emily. I'm so happy to be here with you. I love you. I have no idea what we were doing today. You did just put up a backdrop that I... Which is funny because we have talked about it. Oh, but we'll get there. No, it's okay. No, in terms of like... No, it's okay. Were you dropping hints that I was not picking up on? No, I just think we've, like, straight upset it before. So maybe not. But I think so. Probably. I mean, we do talk about movies a lot. We do talk about movies a lot of the time. But most of them are going straight over my head. If I've never heard it. Honestly, same. In one ear and not the other. Same.

And like your back-up is not, like, the picture is not- It's not giving you anything. I got nothing. I got nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not giving you anything. No. But it does look fun and I'm curious.

It is gorgeous. I'm excited to talk about this week's movie. But before we do that, and did I think scary happen to you this week? So... I guess what I want to talk about is that I have been in a bit of a reading rut, which is always bad for my mental health. I need to be reading books that I like or else I'm like sad and like not as happy as I am normally. And I was having a really hard time because I kept picking up books and kept being like, I don't want to read this book. Like I just kept being like, oh, I hate that

feeling. I was getting, because I'm very lucky to live close to a gazillion libraries. So I've access to, like, every book for free, which is amazing. Highbrays really are so great. I mean, they're great. And also, I mean, like, in Los Angeles or New York City, you have to be on a wait list to get, like, the bestsellers. That's true. It takes a long time to get a lot of books.

Not in Greenwich, Connecticut. Those bad boys are always available. Nobody reeds in Greenwich, Connecticut. I mean, yeah, I guess so. They're too busy, like, doing their money stuff. Yeah. Anyway, so I was having a really tough time. And then I listened to a podcast with Anne Helen Peterson and Maris Kreitzman,

Anne Helen Peterson, who has the culture study substack, who I love and adore. And she's married to Charlie Wartzel, who writes for the Atlantic, here at Galaxy Brain Newsletter. And they're like such an interesting couple to me. Fascinated by that dynamic, would love to be their friend. Anyway, she did a podcast that was just like two hours of her. and Maris Kreitzman, who's also like an essayist and columnist for a variety of places, just like talking about all their favorite books.

And I listened and took notes. I wrote down every single book that they talked about. And now I have this list that is truly a treasure trove of information. I've read two books off of it so far, and I've loved them. And like, this is truly how I want to read books. I want someone to recommend it to me. I know we've talked about this. It's always what I want. It's always what I want. But I don't really want like a book review. Like I don't want like. Right. Because I don't know the person and I got to read. I don't want to read what. Just tell me what book I'll like and pick it. I don't want to know anything about the book. First of all. Don't tell me anything about it. I just want to know whether you liked it or not. That's it. That's all I care about. And why you like what it made you feel like why you liked it. Where were you like in your life? What were you experiencing? What were you going through? Because also that's another thing is it's like you got to have the right. You got to have the right. right book for the right time. It's not always the right time for the book. Yeah. Anyway, so I'll just tell you the two that I've read. One is called on the calculation

of volume. It ends up, it's the first in a series of seven books, which makes a lot of sense. But I did not know that. I reached the end of the book and I was like, what the fuck is this book about? I really enjoyed it, but I was also like, that's the end. It's by a Danish author, and it's kind of a reinterpretation of Groundhog Day. It's a warm. woman experiencing the same day, November 18th. Also, I read this book like last week, so it was basically November 18th over and over and over and over and over again. And it's, it's kind of it's like a meditation on kind of what it would actually be like. Do you know what I mean? Like Groundhog Day and all these other movies, they're always so like fantastical and whimsical and like there's always

some kind of morality at play where you just have to learn to like be a good person or you treat people better. That's how you break the loop. Yep. Yeah. And this is not that. This is, she's like has, she runs a business with her husband. They're deeply in love with each other. They don't have any kids. And she spends like the first half of the, I mean, I don't want to do spoilers. Sorry, a little bit of spoilers. But like every day she wakes up and explains to him what's going on, like re-explains. And he always believes her. immediately. And they're trying to figure it out. Like every day. They're trying to figure it out, trying to figure it out. They do everything. They have like notes. They have like, you know,

graphs, spreadsheets. She creates her like living room into like a, I don't know, like clues, trying to find clues about why she's stuck in this day. Why am I stuck in this day? And every morning she has to wake up and like re-explained to him until finally like she just can't do that anymore. Like it's so painful for him to know that it's going on. And also the longer it goes on, like the farther apart. More powerless she feels. And also the farther apart they are. Like she's like, because they're living in two different realities.

Completely two different realities. Oh, that's actually like the most devastating thing. And so basically the entire first book is that. And then I guess there's six more books. So I don't know. I don't know where it goes from there. But it's really interesting. And I, yeah, I really love that.

And then also another book I'm going to recommend is the Claire DeWitt series, Claire DeWitt in the City of the Dead by Sarah Grant. This is a detective series that the first one's based in New Orleans. And it's a really fun spin on a detective because she's a female detective who is like mystical and spiritual and reads signs and has this kind of mysterious teaching. who disappeared, who taught her how to, like, basically do magic, kind of. Cool. And it's a lot of, like, wisdom about truth or, like, surprising nuggets about truth that I find

it, like, that's what makes detective stories kind of cool to me. Anyway, so if that sounds good to you, I suggest it. Those both sound good to me. Wow, thank you, him. I, too, get really in a rut when I don't have a book that I'm enjoying that I'm reading in my, in my aforementioned getting into bedtime. That's my read my book time. And when I'm not enjoying a book, I'm really sad. I don't know what to do with myself.

I was just, I really think I've maxed out on the Kindle Unlimited. I think I've read every Christmas romance story that's ever been written. Yeah. I've read a lot of the ones about vampires too. pretty much everyone that has to do with like you know enemies to lovers any of the top guys there read them all those top guys as a big genre or subgenre i suppose of the larger genre i can't remember any it's like it passes through me like water they all bleed together yep yep yep yep yeah yeah i get that i get that um anyway so if you are interested in if you like anne helen peterson listen to this podcast and just write down

all the books like I did. And then that will like maybe help you get through your reading rep for a little bit. That sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. Happy for you. Or anyone else that you guys let me know who you guys go to for reading like inspiration. Who inspires you. Um, but Emily, tell me about you. How is your week? My request, good. Um, the scary thing that happened is it's not so much scary as thought-provoking, which is that. So it gets dark now by 5 p.m. It's, it's pitch dark outside. I work until 6 p.m. So I'm spending the last hour of my day in darkness, in the office, which I, you know, don't enjoy. But have come to just, my office is like a big, it's a two-story, almost like warehouse-like space, high ceilings. I hate to tell you a fluorescent lights. It's not bad though. But it's not like the best lit office without natural light. Like once the sun goes down, it's you're kind of just in like a warehouse. Is this kind of like the norm for a fashion spot? You know what I mean? Like is it a lot of warehouse, a lot of warehouse work. I don't know. When you're talking clothes, when you're talking shop. Three for three, the brands that I've worked for, yes. Yeah. But I don't know. Sorry. Also, May just woke up from her nap when she's scream crying out at the door. I don't know. I can't hear her, but I'm sure that's hard for you to hear her. I mean, it's. I mean, it's. I mean, it's.

fine she's fine um but it's also it's it's also like kind of like a cool like modern office type vibe you know so we're it's like open floor plan and i'm on the second level and our desks are all kind of like in an l anyway i've just been accepting that it gets dark at 5 p.m and for the last hour of the day we sit in like you know darkness and so my co-workers and my coworkers are in town from australia this week and next and um in australia in australia well it's summer for them now. The sun is shining 24-7. Yeah, I think probably yes. But when our I co-workers is like a very, she's like really on top of her shit. She's very like takes care of her people like real like take charge kind of personality. And this week, one evening at work, she starts going around all of her desks and installing lamps on all of our desks. Oh my God, stop. And I was like, what's happening? She's like, I got you guys lamps. It's too dark. Is this my soulmate? I'm obsessed with this. When I tell you

the difference this lamp has made in my life I something so simple as putting a lamp in a dark place I had never considered the possibility

and the change in my mood from having this lamp it's unbelievable to a point where I'm like I need to do a better job of evaluating my needs and meeting them because I'm like

over the moon about this fucking lamp on my desk like over the moon wow I feel this way about lamps lamps lamps are so powerful and important lamps are so powerful so powerful so another thing is I record the podcast in our office there's a lamp on the desk that has been broken for like six months it's still sitting here but it's just it's broken because it's fallen off the desk like way too many times and it's just it's like fully broken the wiring is fucked it's not the light bulb it's like the lamp and I've always just been like, well, yeah, and like when I record here and it's getting dark outside, I feel like

it's like really dark in here and there's no nice warm lighting. I look at this broken lamp and I go, well, too bad, there's something I can do about that. I'm going to get another lamp. Yeah, you can. Yeah. Because you can just get a lamp. You can get a fucking lamp. Anytime you want, I can't, I cannot believe the difference one lamp has made in my life. Wait, can you describe the lamp a little bit more? I want to, it's like not even, it's one of those. It's actually, it is actually quite nice it's um it's like it screws on to the edge of the the table and it's cur it curves over and it's like a long rectangle oh but um so it like comes over it's in between all because between every two desks it's like in between and it is a warm warm lighting that's very key and so it look it really

gives the feeling of like cozy library yes like when all the lamps are on and it's dark outside it like all of a sudden makes the office feel like cozy? Yes. Yes. Again, like who fucking knew this was possible? So I have lamped a little bit too hard, like lamped a little bit too close to the sun. Because also I only. You got to look before you lamp.

You got to look before you lamp, baby. I also only use Edison bulbs. Same. And so it's actually like I can't fucking see anything. Like it's like it's too dark in my house. Like sometimes I have to turn on the overhead light because I like literally actually just like can't see what's going on. And I don't want to have to do that. So I don't know. I need a solution. I need more lamps. I think you need more lamps. And I think there be the solution

is what you need is a really high up lamp because probably what you need is like coming from above. Yes. Yes. That will help. But still, you know, warm and glowy. Yes. Because in this room, there are three lamps, but when the sun goes down, like, I can barely, I can barely see what I'm doing. And maybe also, maybe also that's better because it's like, you know, that's what darkness is, you know, we're not meant to see when it's dark. Right. So if the, if you just, yeah, like, sorry, I can't look at that. It's nighttime. Like, I'll have to look at this during the day. I'm becoming one with nature. I can't. I'm not meant to see things clearly at night time. No, I'm like doing laundry at night all the time, like in the pitch black.

I have no idea what's going on. Clothes are going in the washer. That's how it's how it's meant to be. That's how God intended it. Dark laundry. Wow. I'm so happy for that co-worker doing that. She changed my life.

She changed my life. A lot of kindness really can go so far and impacting everything. It's also just such an example of like, we get so used to our, she was literally, she's been in the office for like two days and she was like, you guys need lamps. Like, what are you doing? We need lamps here. Yes. And we've all been working there without just being like, well, it's dark now.

Yes. It's dark and cold. Nothing you could do. Yes. I, it's so easy to get used to things. I got used to having maize blow up dog balloons, 12 of them all over the house. I was just like, I was like, I guess I just live with these 12 huge dog balloons now. I thought they would pop.

They didn't pop. Last night I took scissors and went around and popped all 12 of them because I was like, These motherfuckers, they were like in our pantry, they're like in bookshelves, they're in the laundry basket. They're popping out of left and right. I was like, I don't have to live this way. I can get rid of them. What can you guys? Think it to yourself right now.

What can you do right now? Change one thing. Look around your space and change what. Right now, my office has gotten absolutely crazy. It's the landing zone for like all things that I don't know where to put them. And, like, right now I'm staring at a bag of clothes I bought yesterday, a stack of hats that are too big to put anywhere, a skull from outside that Joel used for our Halloween live show. Wait, a skull from outside. It's a Halloween decoration, but he took it in from outside. But you're right, that was confusing. It's a plastic Halloween skull. But all of that is just, like, littering the space that I'm staring at. And I'd probably feel better if I did something about that. I know. But the thing is, it's never, it's an uphill battle, man. Like, I've been trying to, I've been trying to sort through my sweaters for like, I guess six months now. And I've been gone anywhere. Yeah. And yeah, I bought, so I bought some things yesterday. Had a great day vintage shopping yesterday. It's just one of those days of you're like, I'm not looking for anything in particular. And then you find a bunch of things. It's great. But I came home and it was like, I got to get rid of things. So then I made another pile of things that I'm getting rid of. But now that pile is just sitting on the chair. Anyway, it just gets hard. It just gets hard. But we don't have to solve it all at once.

change one thing. Get a lamp, take a lamp away. You know, whatever that means to you. But anyway, I'm really excited to get a new lamp for this desk. I think it's going to change our life. Wow. I'm so excited for you. Thank you. Wow. Another scary thing that happened to me this weekend is I watched this week's movie and in fact, I watched it twice because I always, we were just talking with this. I always decide I need to watch it again to take notes. And this is a long movie to watch twice. What movie is this? Some might say it was a long movie to watch once, and I watched it twice. And this week's movie is Frankenstein.

Oh, right. Fuck, we did talk about this. We did talk about it so many times, actually. We actually talked about it so many times. But I was really charmed by you texting me yesterday saying, don't tell me what this week's movie is. I want to be surprised. And I said, okay, you definitely already know, but I will surprise you.

But we still got there. I don't know why in my head that was happening in December. I don't know why. Every time we talked about it, there's something. episode releases, it is December. But as we record it, still November. We did talk about this so many times. But also, that tells you the state of my brain. My brain... No, I really actually completely understand. It's not functioning properly. I don't think it has been for a long time.

I still love what it's doing. Oh, thanks. I love what your brain's doing. Oh, thank you. Keep going. Okay, I'll keep going. Don't stop. I will stop. Frankenstein was directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by Guillermo del Toro based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Allorty, Mia Gauth, and Christoph Waltz. Holy shit. What a cast. What a cast. Wow. I don't really know anything about this movie. How long is it? Two and a half hours. Damn, girl. Yeah. It's, and I thought it was, for whatever reason, I had two hours and seven minutes in my head when I sat down to watch this the first time and I was like, all right, two hours, seven minutes. And then I pulled it up and it was 2.32. And I was like, no, my God. It's so long. But we got there, and I did watch it again this morning. It's long.

Wow. It's long. That's a lot. I will start by just telling everyone, it's not scary. It's not scary. Okay. I would compare it to Nosphiratu in, in like, it's like spooky vibes, and it's like technically, it's a horror, but it's like, it's not scary.

Right. It's like monster. Monster movie. Monster movie horror. Yeah. there's some gross stuff, there's some body stuff. So if you're like particularly squeamish to visuals, you may not enjoy it, but like I found it to be completely fine.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Wow. Okay. Let's get into it. Yeah. Let's get into it.

Yes. It's a Netflix movie. So it released a limited run in theaters, but came out on Netflix on November 7th of this year. It has an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 77 on Metacritic and a 7.6 on IMDB. Wow. Oh, pretty good. Budget of $120 million.

Box office of $480,678. Hmm. But again, I think that's because it's Netflix and it had a very limited. Yeah, I don't understand. I still. So I don't know how it works. I don't know how it works. I worked there for five years and I never understood how it was working.

I don't get it. I don't get it at all. I really don't get it. But, you know, oh well. That's fine. That's just fine. Okay, some trivia. What do you know about this movie, Hen? Anything?

Literally nothing. Yeah, I guess I'd seen that Jacob Allorty's in it. I saw some headlines saying that he, like, emailed Guillermo del Toro asking to be in it or something like. Or he, like, sent like a mean tweet about Guillermo del Toro that then... Shockingly was not on my IMDB trivia, which is like, that's the kind of stuff I want to know about. Well, this is also my, like, half-baked brain that's not fully functioning that read like a handful of words and is trying to repiece it together right now. Yeah. I don't know anything about this film at all, except now the picture that I'm looking at makes it look like there's some serious vibes. Is this just like vibe at high the whole time? There's a lot of vibes, yeah. Strong aesthetic movie, which was what I was interested in. I was like, I do want to gather these vibes. We'll get into it. Some trivia is that playing Frankenstein's creation.

was the most demanding role of Jacob Allorty's career. He spent up to 10 hours in the makeup chair. To make his early call time, he'd sometimes arrive at the makeup trailer at 10 p.m. And stay up all night. Holy shit, that would suck. Like, that's something... I like don't...

That's not right. We always talk about it when this happens with a movie. Like, there's always like a time lapse of someone getting into costume, blah, blah, blah. And we really aren't spending enough time talking about how crazy it is that some people are spending... Like, what the fuck? Yeah. How many days did you have to do that, I wonder, you know?

I wonder. I can't imagine it was a short shoot. I, you better hope you, like, love your makeup artist and, like, your prosthetic person and stuff. Alorti said he loved the experience. It's the most I felt at home ever playing a character and shooting a movie. It was the most comfortable I've ever been. Okay. Great. Okay. Never mind. We don't have to linger on it. It's all good. It's all good. Good for you. For his role as the creature, Jacob Alorty studied Japanese Budo dance. and Mongolian throat singing to capture the monster's mannerisms. Did we get any dancing in this film?

You don't get any... I would say it's more of like a movement. Yeah, it's like a body style, you know? Right. Andrew Garfield was originally cast as the monster, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. He was replaced by Jacob Allerty, and the makeup team had spent nine months

crafting Andrew Garfield's look as the monster, but had only a few weeks to rework it for Lurdy prior to filming. Yikes. Director Guillermo Totoa wanted Victor Frankenstein to appear less like a scientist and more like a rock star, citing David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Prince as influences on Oscar Isaac's performance. Wow, like a mad, like a mad genius. Yeah, like a kind of cool fucking, he wears a hat in this movie. What a hat. Oscar Isaac was Guillermo Toro's only choice for the role of Victor Frankenstein.

I mean, agreed. Makes sense. He's my only choice like 100% of the time for everything. Yeah, absolutely. It's like, yeah, I don't need a second choice Because my first choice is Oscar Isaac, always, always Okay, I think we should watch this trailer Because I don't, I want you to get a taste of the vibes

And I don't, I mean, it's Frankenstein, like you know the drill I don't really think there's spoilers here I haven't watched this trailer yet, but I'm like not worried Because again, it's Frankenstein, we all know the drill We all know the story, yeah, I think I was supposed to read this book in college And then never read it You know, I never did I don't even think I was ever assigned it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was assigned this book and never read it. So now is my time to redeem myself. Now is your time. Let's take a look. I have been so blind my entire life. I got glasses when I was a wee babe and started wearing contacts when I was in middle school, I think. So I have been through it. I am an expert at this point about what is best.

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I demand a single grace from you. If you are not to award me, love. Then I will indulge. Enrage. Now... run. Holy shit. That looks really good. Yeah. Okay. The trailer's way better than the movie.

So the thing is that Lisa doesn't look like a... It doesn't look like a Netflix movie. Like Netflix movies usually like, sorry. It's insane to me that it's on Netflix. It's actually insane to me. This movie should have been a theatrical release. He has, like, a deal with Netflix. It's, this, I, okay.

This is meant for the big screen. This is not meant for, this is absolutely meant for the big screen. For an iPhone viewing, you know. I, that trailer was amazing. I. Was it catfishing us a little bit? Trailers, it's really rude how they catfish us so often.

There's, there is a lot to love about this movie. I'm very excited to tell you about it. I want to love the movie as much as I love that trailer. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mainly, I was kind of bored. Yeah. So you know what's funny is like I had this feeling while watching the trailer where I was like, wow, I really want to watch this.

Maybe Tim and I can watch this. And then I had a vision of me and Tim watching it and me going, I'm going to go to bed, about 40 minutes in. And at 40 minutes in, you would still have about two hours left. Exactly. Exactly. And then Tim would be, because he's a completionist at heart, he would be forced to finish it. And you would like, halfway through, I was like, should I pick another movie? Because there's so much more to go. But again, I actually like, I'm like devastated to report it because lots of people loved this movie and I actually like really wish I was one of them. It like hurts me that that I can't in good conscience tell you that I loved this movie. But I did. love things about it and I would love for someone to cut it down for me and give me the movie that I want. Because it's, it's, it's, give me the highlight reel.

There were things that worked so well. And I think it's also partially that I'm like, I wanted that to be the movie. Like there were moments that like gave me chills. They were so good. And in between, I was sort of like, hmm. You know? And maybe that's me. Maybe that's my tattered, fragile attention span. But it's also why I think it would have hit different in a movie theater on a big screen, you know? Yeah. I also It's easier to become bored on your couch at home. Yeah. Yeah. No, and I believe you wholeheartedly.

Like I was feeling, I was getting that sense, even just watching the trailer. And like, here's what I'm, here's what I'm excited about. At a minimum, I'm going to learn more about the story of Frankenstein, an important story for us to know. Exactly. It's part of the canon. And guess what, Henley? It's actually 100% about parenting and about mothers. It's about mothers. It's always about mothers. Yeah. So, you know, we'll get into it. Okay. But I am, I, it's, it's a worthy tale. It's a worthy tale. And so let's get into this worthy tale. Let's do it. Okay. We begin. Black screen. immersive writing, a Chiron that says Prelude. Wow, a

prelude. Damn. Second Chiron tells us that we're in the farther most north in the year 1857. It did look cold. And we see an icy landscape, tundra, icebergs, just

nothing but ice, wind blowing frost across the landscape. We see a ship that's lodged in an iceberg. Can't get free of crew of men are trying to, they're hacking at that ice, trying to get this ship free. I'm thinking, like, what? Like, you're basically... You can't sail on ice. You can't keep going. There's, there's ice that you basically hit land. Like, I don't get it. But they're cold. Their

beards are all frosted. There's, the second in command comes up to the captain. He says, Captain. They're speaking, I think Russian. Sure. I don't look it up. Sounds right. But he says, captain the men need some assurances that we're going to go home after this they're tired they're afraid we're not going to be seaworthy for much longer and the captain gets up on the ladder he says hey man we are continuing our mission no matter what as soon as this ship is free we continue on to the north pole and i'm like i don't think you can but okay also mutiny this captain he is he is a man on a mission will stop at nothing perhaps

a similar mentality to a young scientist will come to meet Interesting sometime after we see Night has fallen

sailors are still trying to get the ship free when they hear an explosion and they look off into the distance

on the ice and they just see a fire going and the captain and a few men decide we need to go explore that and see what that

was the group approaches they see some sled dogs completely uninjured just barking, but there's all this blood in the snow and they're saying where this blood come from, the dogs are fine. A few feet away, they see a body of a man. They approach it. This is

Oscar Isaac. He is injured. He's been stabbed. He's something. He's bleeding. His leg is bent at a really bad angle. They come to him. They start to figure out how to get him up on a plank. You know, one of this? Yeah. Yeah, plain. They go to sort of reset his leg and discover it's actually a prosthetic, but he's in bad shape. And they're assessing what's up with him when they hear a loud roar. Uh-oh. There's no other way to describe it. Uh-oh. And they look around, it's dark. They don't know where this came from. We're not meant to see in the dark. No, we're not. And somebody needs a lamp. And they say, get him back to the ship. Go back to the ship on high alert. What's that? sound what's going on who injured him what's happening he is like not dead but out of it they can't

really be talking to him but they rush back to the ship they get oscar isaac on board and they see in the distance of figure approaching there's a group of men that they get their rifles they get down on one knee they aim at this thing they shoot they shoot it it stumbles back and it continues towards them whoa whoa whoa reload it's getting closer they shoot it again he roars and he keeps coming at them. We basically just see it's a large you know, man

shaped thing. Jacob Allurety shaped. Jacob Allurety sized person with a big fuzzy, crazy cloak with a hood so we can't really see his face. His face is all wrapped up. The cloak looks like if you like tied a bunch of ravens

to like a big black wolf bear and just like threw it over your shoulders. Like the texture of this coat is something else. Oh my God. And it's wide and it's big and he's, you know, Jacob Bellorty's size. It's, this is a big guy. It's giving runway. It's honestly very high fashion. It's very high fashion. It's like Rick Owens. Is that right? It's exactly right. Okay. But they're shooting at him and he is not stopping. So they're like, get to the ship. Like they're immediately like, fuck, abandon this, abandon this. Some of the men managed to get back onto the ship. He gets to them before the

rest of them are able to and he just starts laying waste to these dudes he punches a guy in the head his head breaks back on his spine he like contortion tumbles and rolls back the creature picks up another guy chucks him across the ice he like hits a pole dunzo like he is superhuman strong and it's just plowing through these dudes oh no he gets onto the ship the rest of the sailors, you know, stop, he stops. He's not attacking them. They're not attacking him. He sees Oscar Isaac

laying on a plank over in the corner. Oscar Isaac has now come to. They lock eyes. And he raises a finger and he says, Victor. Hell yes. Is this how he talks the whole time? Hell yes.

And he says, bring him to me. He doesn't have a Nostphratuax. I don't know why I just added that role. are. But the men then try to fight him, push him off. There's just a way this ain't happening. He starts plowing

through them. He's knocking people around again. When a sailor comes out with a big gun, they call it the blunder boss. Whoa. That's a name. And it has like four mini-canon like things. Shoots Jacob Bellorty.

He stumbles back, shoots him again, flinging him off the end of the ship. Okay. And by now they pulled the ladder up so he's he's on the ground they're up on the ship and he is mad and he's down on the ground he's pushing the ship and he said bring him to me captain takes the gun shoots and he shoots the ice all around where a lordy is standing smart it cracks off he slips he falls below the surface we just watch as he plunges plunges plunges further into the darkness Catch the captain's quarters

Where we've got Asker Isaac bandaged up A medic is tending to him And the captain He's giving him some opioids or something To numb the pain And Victor says to the captain It will come back and kill many more All if necessary until it gets to me

Captain says it's dead He says no it's not It cannot die It will come back for me And when it does You must promise that you will put me out on the ice And let it take me Okay

And the captain says What manner of creature is it What manner of devil made it I did I did I made him And he sits up and he says Some of what I'll tell you is

Fact Some is not But it is all true Wow My name is Victor Victor Frankenstein. It was my father that gave me that name. It all started with him. He's doing a really fun accent here that I'm not conveying the accent accurately, but I am conveying the vibe. I'm getting the vibe and I'm loving the vibe. Yeah. I'm loving the vibe. It's a good vibe.

And also, this is also another interesting narrative device. It's like, okay, so is the story of Frankenstein told from the perspective of the doctor? Is this what we're going to get? Pan, you're just going to have to wait and see. We flashback. He starts telling his tale. We see a French lady in a gorgeous red chiffon cape dress. Wait, is that Marian Catillard? No. No. Oh, it really looks like her. It's Mia Goth. Oh, that's Mia Gauth? In that picture? It is. Holy shit. But during this whole time, you are a little bit like, is that me a goth? Because... That doesn't look like Miagoth to me at all in that picture. Yeah. She's got a specific eyebrow thing happening. I think other face stuff.

Right. But it is Mia Goth. Okay. But she's in this fabulous red situation. It is. Speaking French, she's calling to her son, Victor. They step outside to meet their Victor's approaching father. We learned that he was a doctor, very, very established, respected doctor of the time.

He married Victor's mother for her wealth. She had an estate, and that allowed him to do his work. He came home very infrequently, but when he did, everything changed. Sorry, so Mia Gauth is Oscar Isaac's mom? Yes. Okay, okay, okay. And is Christoph, what the fun? Is Christoph Waltz, the dad?

Is he the... No. Okay. It's Tywin Lannister. Oh. Yeah. Sure. And Victor's voiceover says, you know, he came home infrequently, but the rest of the time,

mother was mine. Yikes. We see it dinner. Victor's father forcing Victor's mother to eat this really bloody piece of meat. She's pregnant and he's like, you're eating for two now. And it's really an uncomfortable scene. Victor's voiceover says, the man despised us both. And we see him quizzing Victor.

They're in the library. The gorgeous home, huge mass of high ceilings, gilded carvings, furnishings, banisters. We're in this incredible library. and Victor's being quizzed on medical stuff Sure And his father is asking questions He's answering them And he

Forgets the answer to one of the questions And his father gets him to stand up He takes out a long metal Or a wooden stick Victor holds out his hands And he says, no, not your hands, not anymore Those are your tools But your face, that's vanity

Slaps him across the face With this wooden stick and he says, you bear my name and with it my reputation. Yikes. Not a nice dad. No. Perhaps a theme.

Yeah. Cycle of violence continues. Exactly. Next day we see Victor and his mother playing cards, having a lovely time giggling. They just have both such a wonderful relationship. They love each other.

They love each other. When she keels over, starts screaming in pain, Victor runs to get his father, his father rushes the mother away. She had grabbed Victor and we see when she pulls away her blood left on his face

where she grabbed. Oh, that's so sad. She's rushed away down another corridor of the house by Victor's father and in the distance we just hear her screaming. Cut to

the most beautiful coffin you've ever seen. A beautiful coffin. I wasn't expecting that. It's actually stunning. It's like white marble and it's carved in like the shape of her body

and only her head is out. It's like a sarcophagus, you know, more than a coffin. And her face is like surrounded by this like plush, crinkly velvet. And it's just her face out and she's being carried. And then they place the like marble carving of her face over the top of her face and like seal it in as her little. It's absolutely stunning. When I'm planning my estate, I'll show him a clip from this film and I'll say this is what I want. This is what I want.

And we see snow is falling. A gorgeous white, wintry landscape behind. We see Victor's father holding a newborn baby and Victor and behind them. All these women just shrouded in white. And so it's like the white snow and these women shrouded in white in this white coffin. Gorgeous, haunting. Vibes. Wait, how old is he again at this point, do you think?

Probably 12-ish. Yeah, okay. 13. Sure. She says, his voiceover says, my mother, she who is life was now death. Wow. Sad. We cut a few years later, we see a young toddler with Victor's father.

Victor's probably being very warm to him, laughing at him, treating him with such kindness. And Victor watching literally from behind a tree, just being like, ugh. And Victor says, William, he was a child with a sunny disposition. He was the breeze, and I was the storm cloud. He says, my mother had died at the hands of the most distinguished doctor of his day. generation and an idea started to take shape in my mind. We see Victor with his father once again being quizzed on medical stuff and he says, you let her die, didn't you? And his father says, I did everything I could to save her. And Victor says, so you failed. And he says, no one can conquer

death. And Victor says, I will. That night, Victor dreams. He's got this big, guardian angel, like, full-blown statue that would be like in the fucking Notre Dame in his bedroom. And he, it's, he has a dream that night of that figure as a dark angel. And he see like flames around it and it's like all in red. And he says, I dream of a dark angel. It made me a promise. I would have command over the forces of life and death. I would surpass my father an ambition and reach. The vision was so clear, clearer than anything I'd ever seen. cut back to the ice where this tail is being told and we see hands burst through

and we see Jacob Alluredie crawl himself up onto the ice and we see the ship far in the distance cut back to the tail Victor explains after his mother died over time they lost all the money they lost the estate we see another gorgeous coffin this one black his father is in it he says that after his father died

Victor and William were split apart. Victor was sent to Edinburgh and William was sent to an aunt and uncle in Vienna. Chiron now says 1855. We cut to adult, young adult, Victor, clean-shaven Oscar Isaac. Love it.

With big sideburns. Oh, even better. And a jawline that could cut glass. I mean, just unbelievable. Wow, the mutton chop on a sharp jaw line. it's actually like painful to look at it's too much out Victor is giving a presentation he's in one of those rooms you've seen in movies where he's like in the center of like around in the round oh yeah and there are people the you know

stadium seating elevated stadium seating and in the front little section there's three men with wigs and gavels it's like a tribunal or something and Victor is explaining that man may stop death and he's figured it out not slow it but stop it and everyone is a oh my god amaze what's he gonna do what's he talking about

these guys clearly like he he's pushing boundaries he's a little he's a bit like Mick Jagger meets Prince meets David Bowie you know I see it I see it he's confident he's fucking cool he doesn't give a shit

commanding the space he's tossing a ball up and down being like so fucking cavalier and cool he's like I'm so above you guys you little, little iny-weeney, we don't even know what I know. We see Christoph Waltz in the audience watching and looking very intrigued. With very dark brown hair, which looks shocking on him. Like, immediately I was like, whoa.

I can't even picture it. He, you know, Victor is giving his explanation. These three wigged men are like, this is too much. You need to calm down. Everybody, you need to calm down. The dad from the witch is there in the middle and he's like, tell us how you mean to stop death. How do you intend to do what's impossible? Perfect casting in this film.

the way, perfect casting. Ten out of ten. Ten out of ten. And Victor's like, oh, I'm so glad you asked. Behind him, there's like a display covered in a cloth and he yanks it down. And on that display is it's a wooden board. And nailed essentially to the wooden board is a human head, open skull, brain out, which we do know now is the texture of silken tofu. Wait, wait, yes. Hold on. We do know now that it's like, it's different when it's in our brain right now. In our brain right now, it's soft squishy. Like when they're doing brain surgery, it's soft squishy, whatever. And then when it's like taken out of the brain, taken out of the skull for science, it's hardened. It's hardened in like a That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And just to clear that up. Because it looks a little

hard in this, because it's open, open skull, head. Is a person alive? No. Okay. It's, um, it's corpse. Yeah. But it's also. And then it's just like top torso, like rib cage and then just some, some, some organs dangling and like the bottom of the spine dangling. So just the top half of a corpse. Top half of a corpse with one arm. Yikes. One arm, torso, innards, spine head, open brain on a board.

Pretty gross. And it's got like needles attached to wires in various places within it. And you know, he unveils this and ever you know, oh my God. And he says, this body, this is the body of a shopkeeper delivered to me mere moments after expiration. The arm was from another specimen.

So this is one guy's head and torso and another guy's arm. Yeah. And so he's got this he's got like two little sockets basically where he like plugs in a big fat vial of something. It locks it into place and it goes

and it jizzes to life. And the corpse animates. It goes And it starts breathing And its heart starts beating And everyone is freaking out The wigged man are

This is unholy This is an abomination They're like, this is a circus tricktide This is a place of science And he said And Victor says trickery He takes that ball Tosses it to the corpse

The hand grabs it Oh my god he's great reflexes too And he's like The eye of one man With the arm of another Acting in unison I don't know People are mad

they're like get out of here you're expelled this is disgusting and he says don't let their dog must stop you we can escape death and we should try to do it these aren't his exact words but this is the vibe and he's like fine you don't want me to do it fine and he unplugs one of the needles from the corpse and it gasps and dies again and he storms out of the room well for someone who's so obsessed with defeating death he's pretty cavalier about life i gotta say now this is an interesting observation yeah perhaps part of the problem right right we see victor he's out in the streets walking back he's got a very jaunty hat dipped at an angle hell yes give me a jaunty hat any day the week and a and like a a coat that really like moves when he walks you know he's really got he's

really all vibe and he's walking walking down the street and the streets it's you know 1850s Edinburgh it's mud in the road he's walking down one street where there's a bunch of butchers in an alleyway so the cobblestone is just like blood and water it's nasty he approaches his office door and he is met by christoph waltz whose name is hare harlander i'm going to call him harlinder he has a letter for victor he says i have a letter from william your brother he is coming to visit in a few days with his new fiance

my niece may I come in and speak with you for a few moments Victor welcomes him in Harlander's very intrigued by Victor's studies he's walking around his lab he's looking at his notes Victor sitting on the couch drinking a jar of milk Harlander tells him

in three days we'll meet with William and Elizabeth I have a place here in town that you will come to and I will show you something extraordinary and I will change your destiny. Cut to three days from now, Victor arrives. We see Harlander is practicing photography, which is really just an opportunity for us to show a naked woman

because every movie needs a gratuitous naked woman. Yes, we do. He shoes the woman away. He tells Victor, you know, I've gotten into photography. It's a young art form, but I've gotten very into it. Victor has brought Harlander his whole notebook of notes on his research, and Harlander's looking through them. And he says, I guess you're using the nervous system

to give the energy to the body to reanimate. He says, therefore, the lifespan must be very brief. And Victor admits, yes. Harlander gives Victor a glass of milk. Victor drinks the milk. And Harlander says, you ended your experiment early, like your demonstration early,

seemed like out of defiance, but you knew that the corpse was going to run out of energy quickly. And here Harlander, is going to explain some medical stuff that I'm not going to explain properly. I wouldn't understand it, even if he did explain it properly.

But Harlander basically has a plank of wood on which has been... There was a corpse on it. Okay. They let the corpse decay? Or they... Something, leaving behind only the lymphatic system. What?

And then they covered that in... in resin so it's like it's basically like a map of the lymphatic system on a big plank of wood but it's like actually a dead person's lymphatic system sure but it just looks like it just looks like a piece of art like it looks like silver you know spindleys and lumps and stuff this did make me go like I should get a lymphatic massage I was like whoa look at this lymphatic system like this is crazy I know you know what Sammy got me a gift certificate to lymphatic massage that I still haven't used I think about it like once a week. I'm like, damn, I need to go do that. I really want to do it. Because like, he seems like the lymphatic system's like a really big deal.

I know. And were we talking about it back in the 1850s? Because like I thought people didn't discover it till like literally last year. I didn't. I certainly didn't. But basically there's this part of the lymphatic system that Harlander shows him on this map that's like right here where the heart is, this area can regenerate energy. like a crazy amount. So if you use a lymphatic system, and in particular this part of the lymphatic system, to power your corpse, it will work.

Wait, will that work for me too as a human being who's alive right now and not a corpse? If so, like, someone tell me which lymphatic system I need to activate. Victor says, healing and regeneration beyond recognition. So it's like, okay, I guess this is the secret key. Harlander basically says I, we learned that Harlander is an

arms dealer. Okay. And there's a war going on. So he has a lot of money. Wait, so why is he also figuring out the lymphatic system? He's just doing that in his spare time. He was an army surgeon. Oh, okay. And then became an arms dealer. Okay. But Harlander is, or Victor is kind of like, what's in this for you? And Harlander's like, I will fund your research, whatever you need. I, like, I believe that you can do this and I want you to do it.

And Victor says, I work alone. What's in this for you? And he says, I'm just interested in the pursuit of science. A day may come where I'll ask you for a favor. But really what it is, aside, just I'm really interested in science. I wonder what that favor could be. Just then, William arrives and introduces his fiance, Elizabeth. And this is Mia Gauth as well. Does that throw him for a loop?

Or is it, like, not discussed? It's not discussed. But, you know, this movie is leaning really hard into one of the themes being the edible complex which is like the explanation behind all the milk which is like

oh okay he's constantly drinking milk in this movie which when you take the edible complex out of it is just very funny like I was really enjoying that any time you see him

drinking a beverage it's milk like that's just a funny funny detail but when you're like it's because he wants to fuck his mom it's like well I don't like it anymore well now you've yeah now you've upset me

we've talked about how our feelings on people drinking a big glass of milk we've talked about our feelings I wasn't even going to... It's weird for an adult man to just drink big glasses of milk. Yeah, 100%. I wasn't going to say anything, but I feel like the movie wants you to. The movie's like, notice. The movie's actually like begging you to... Notice, notice, notice. Think about how much he wants to fuck his mom. Yikes, okay. And like, okay. You know? Yeah. But this is Mia Gough looking like Mia Gough, but also kind of like his mom. And he is immediately, we see that he is enchanted by her. And she is enchanting. she turns around to reveal that she's wearing

I suppose one could call it a hat but it is it's two big blue ostrich feathers that like start from the top and like curve away from her head and then come back around to frame her head like a little ostrich feather halo Wow It's absolutely stunning They sit down to lunch

And Victor's immediately being He greets William with a lot of warmth and fondness when they first season but over lunch he's pretty quickly you know William's like I can't believe you got expelled wouldn't it be better to just continue your research privately not make such a stir

and Victor pretty immediately starts making fun of him and is like oh yes William is just so prudent and our father was also very by the book and very practical and I suppose William's always been that way too just like talking shit on him and embarrassing him in front of his fiance

and William is pretty quickly like yeah I guess, Victor, you always talk a big game. And Victor says, if one has a brilliant idea, why keep that silent? And Mia Gauth kind of laughs at this under her breath. And he says, you think that's funny. And she says, I don't think that ideas are valuable on their own. And he asked her to explain. And she says, honor, country, valor. These are worthwhile ideas on their own. Nevertheless, men are dying for these ideas every day. Because there's a war going on. She's very upset. about this she says that is what happens when ideas are pursued by fools i agree with that a few weeks later or some you know some short time later

william and harlander take victor to this abandoned water tower where they think he could turn it into his laboratory and this water tower is like what's the tower that fucking Saraman. No. Saran. Like the eye, the crazy eye? The one who flings Gandalf around. Okay.

That one. Seen, it's like that tower. Sure. On the outside. And on the inside, it's like Beauty and the Beast. Wow. Abandoned East Wing meets

the Wizards Palace in Wicked meets the Chamber of Secrets. Whoa. Whoa. You know, Guillermo del Toro does love a deeply dramatic space, cavernous. It's like, you know, crumbling but gorgeous stone, cold leaves everywhere, gorgeous ornate windows, but the glass is sort of cracked. They go up to the top of this water tower and it like funnels down like a big chute down to the ground below where water is supposed to like pour in and then rush out to the sea. Wow. The chute itself looks like the

shoot in Mission Impossible Five Rogue Nation, the one that Tom jumps down to go into the water thing. I am loving these references. This is amazing. And Victor's immediately like, this is it. This is my space. I felt destiny coaling. This is it. They decided to turn it into Victor's lab. And Victor also, he's wearing his hat. He's wearing his coat. He's wearing bright red gloves. He's like strutting his stuff through this space like, oh my fucking God, yes, this is it. Yes, I'm the man. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Smash cut. He's at a town hanging and there's like a line of men getting ready to go up and be hung and he's going down the line and like examining them to see if he's going to take any of their body parts after they are hung.

He then starts walking through town after he's examined all these bodies and he catches sight of Elizabeth at a market in the street. She's buying some books and he decides he's going to follow her, see where she goes, because he's just so. enchanted by her. Follows her into a church where she waits her turn to do confession. And he's like, what could a creature such as this have to confess? And as luck would have it, I had an opportunity to find out. We see the father leave the confession booth and Victor slips in. Okay. Elizabeth doesn't see. Well, that's fucked up. Go away, it is fucked up. He does a lot of stuff that's pretty fucked up. She goes into the confession

booth and he's putting on a voice and says tell me my child what do you have to confess? And she says a sin of intention not indeed or a sin of thought not deed. I must confess I've had sinful thoughts about my

fiance's brother and he goes lust and she says hatred he's horrid he's horrible he thinks he's so wonderful he's awful I hate everything about him and he is just so much less clever than he believes and he says what do you mean my child explain what you mean she says well for one he's very easy to spot even on a crowded market in the middle of the day and the jig is up she was pulling his freaking leg she knew it was him the whole time they walk out all smiles oh my god look at us they go

to a restaurant together he looks at the book that she purchased, they're about bugs. Cool. Turns out she's a little scientist and she loves insects. Cool. She says, I've always searched for something more pure, more marvelous. Victor is in love.

He has big, googly eyes for her. He asks her to dance. She says, I think that's hardly appropriate. And he said, is anything? And they dance. Uh-oh. And he says, his voiceover says, and for the very first time

I became more interested in life and somewhat less interested in death. Cut to a montage of William preparing the lab and we see that Victor because this lab is like outside of town to a bit of a distance away

and we see that Victor is fine in all kinds of excuses to be like up the lab's not ready yet William you have to stay so he can keep hanging out with Elizabeth we see they're out in the woods catching butterflies together because she loves insects.

So they catch a butterfly and put it in a little glass container and they're just absolutely adoring each other's company. Victor's having this, you know, montage of falling in love with Elizabeth. He is also having some trouble

with his research. He keeps... He's got a man, a cadaver, sort of bent over like child's pose on his working desk and he's got his spine sort of like

butterfly flayed open spatch cocked yeah spatch cocked um but just like the skin and muscle so he's like exposing the spinal column yuck and he's got again those like big fat needles attached to wires he's kind of moving them around nothing's happening he's growing more frustrated at a party at harlander's house uh harlander catches victor flirting with elizabeth and comes to him and is basically like uh you've got a week to figure this out. Otherwise, my funds are going to run out. I've gotten word that there will be a battle here next week, which means lots of fresh corpses for us. So you have until then to figure this out. And Victor's like, fuck, fuck, fuck, oh no, no, no. Yuck. He's back in his lab. Elizabeth shows up the

next day. She has the little caged butterfly with her. She's not at all disgusted by the dissection that he has. He warns her like, Elizabeth, you might not like this. And she's like, oh, it's beautiful. You see God's design in the symmetry of the shapes. Victor confesses that he's in love with her and, you know, that he says, I believe our bond is something beyond anything I've ever felt.

And she says, believing something does not make it true. Wow. And she looks at the butterfly in the cage. She says, it's extraordinary, isn't it? Such an interesting creature. Multiple eyes, white blood, and an

astonishing lack of choice. She says, choice is the seat of the soul, the one gift God granted us. I have chosen. And she leaves the butterfly with him and leaves the lab. He's, sorry to stop her,

but what's done is done. She's made her choice. She's chosen William. She's chosen William. You're doing such a good Mia Goth, by the way. Thank you. I'm transported. Later that night, Oscar Isaac slash Victor is just so dejected he's he's taking a bath

he's lost all of his mojo when he thinks about something she said symmetry oh my goodness symmetry he gets up naked out of the bath running through his lab butt out we don't get full frontal unfortunately but we do get naked butt I'll take it I'll take it and he goes up to his corpse and he takes one of the needles

and he moves it to a different place and the corpse comes to life big jump scare and Oscar Isaac's like Like, I did it. Oh, my God. Cut to an empty battlefield. After the battle, corpses everywhere.

They're marking which bodies they want to take with them. Victor tells Harlander he's favoring tall specimens, long limbs. Scale will make the work easier. Maybe someone about the size of Jacob Lordy. Cut two back at the lab. We're in the, like, at the bottom floor of this water, tower is like a true chamber of secrets like it's like archways and white marble and like a little river that runs down the middle that like leads out into the ocean it's very drippy wet chamber of

secrets vibes so down in the chamber of secrets we've got all these bodies laid out and oscar isex examining them and then he just starts chopping he is taking one he's you know slicing a kneecap off of one guy sawing the foot off another he grabs an awesome arm and, like, twists it and breaks it off. Jesus. Yeah. It's nasty, but it's also, like... He's an artist at work.

Yeah, and it's like, I, again, could handle this. Right, right, right, right. You don't really have to look away. Okay. I thought. And I'm pretty squeamish about that kind of stuff. But something about it was like... The best one was limb removal.

I know. I'm surprised that you had this reaction to limb removal. I know. Because it felt like wicked meets beauty and the beast meets... Harry Potter and the Chamber Secrets. Yeah, it's Harry Potter. horror. And so he's pulling all these pieces apart. He's like pulling on ligaments on a hand. And then he starts assembling. And we see him putting a hand on, putting an eyeball in sewing pieces of skin on top,

very Mr. Potato Head. Harlander is there. He's photographing the whole process. He's done. The man is assembled. The lab is just, there's piles of body parts that he didn't use from all these people. It's bloody. It's wet. It's nasty. He's backing him up. He's dragging him through the lab. Putting him down the chute sending him off into the ocean and he's got his his body ready to go he hooks it up to this special table that he had built locks his arms in puts a little cage with the battery thing over his heart nails been his head he's got like a good night mommy wrap around his face he cranks a lever and the the table that the body's on goes upright and he's like all right cool i'm done I'm ready, just as we hear thunder rolling in the distance.

I'm like, oh, my God, it's time. He goes to get Harlander, who's staying in the lab with him to be like, it's time. And as he comes to the room, Harlander, like, ducks and, like, runs behind a dressing curtain. And he's like, um, um, get me my cane, get me my cane. I like, doesn't want Victor to see him. Victor is like, what's going on? Victor grabs the cane. Harlander says, inside the handle, and he unscrews it.

And he takes out a little vial and realizes he says, Mercury. Are you ill? And he gives it to Harlander. Harlander drinks it. Victor poked his little head around and sees, he does not, in fact, have shocking brown hair. And that's a wig. His head is, he's balding.

It's very scabby and bloody. And Victor says, is it syphilis? And it is... Oh, syphilis is really... That's a tough one. Yeah. And so he does say, you know, first, this will spread to my bones it'll eat away at my bones my ribcaged my skull exposing my brain i'll go mad then one day i'll

wake up and i'll scream in pain and i won't stop until i die oh god that's awful horrible um and he says so now this brings me to that favor right right right we knew it was heading in this direction so now that you have this new perfect body put my brain in it oh And Victor says, no, absolutely not. And he's like, what? No, please. Like, yeah, put my brain in it. Like, honestly, like, why not?

Well, I'm like, why not just say yes? Because you're going to have to knock this guy out in order to take his brain. Like, just let him think that that's what you're doing. Right. But Victor's like, no, absolutely not. He says that you know that this is a degenerative disease. This has all of your organs are polluted. Everything's polluted.

Your brain is. You say your brain is polluted. Yeah, your brain is polluted. I'm not putting you in this perfect specimen that I just built. Like, it'll ruin the whole thing. That's, wow, that's really not nice. And Victor storms out. It's time to get ready for the big moment.

He climbs to the top of this fucking tower that is really tall. And he's just free climbing it to install a silver rod pointing up to the sky at the top of the tower. puts it's pouring down rain very treacherous climb but he does it with ease he comes back into the top floor of the water tower where he's setting up the rest of the instruments it's like a silver rod on the top of the tower and then met another metal rod on the inside of the tower that will connect to the top rod that will then shoot down into the lab look i don't know they figured it out he's an electrician too he can do it all exactly he knows a lot of things but it has to they're like Like, at the level where there's that Mission Impossible shoot going down to the floors below,

Harlan comes to him and is still demanding, like, please, please, please, I need you to do this, put my brain in this body. Victor is like, absolutely not, absolutely not, absolutely not. We can talk about this later. Like, this is not happening. And so Harlander grabs one of the metal poles that he needs in order to get ready for reanimating this corpse. And he's trying to withhold it from him being like, I won't give it to you. you put my brain in there

and Oscar Isaac tries to grab it and get it back from him. Harlander slips. He's almost falling down that shoot. He puts his hands out. Victor goes to grab him, grabs his sleeve. The sleeve rips off. Harlander falls, crashes, smashes his head on the metal floor below.

Dead. Wow. Very dead. His head has turned into a semicircle. It's all flat and mush under there. It's narsty. Nasty. So Victor's like, okay, well, gotta keep going.

So he gets his little pole screwed in. He just in the nick of time, installs everything. He goes back into the main room of the lab. He's cranking gears. There's big battery things that were green and now they're red

and that's a good thing. And there's steam coming and he's like throwing gasoline and where gasoline needs to go in like water and the other thing and he's cranking and he's pushing buttons and he's pulls coming down and a metal thing opens

and then another metal thing opens and everything's lined up and lightning strikes the metal rod at the ceiling and it shoots a current down to the metal rod on top of the cadaver and sparks are flying and Victor's hiding and it's also so wet in there for there to be like this much electricity happening

like it's so wet. This is insane. That's so true. That's such a good point. Like he would be electrocuted and dead. Yeah, he'd be dead, dead, dead dead. Yeah, dead dead dead dead. But, you know, it works.

The lightning strikes. The battery on the chest of the cadaver, like, lights up. But then the light fades. Victor runs over. He pulls it off. He listens for a heartbeat. There is none. He starts slamming, slamming the heart.

Like, no, no, no, no. Devastated. He runs, retires to his bed, throws a shirt off, just collapses onto the bed. Devastated, exhausted. Wow. It didn't work. Wow. Wake up the next morning.

Coming to, opening his eyes, greeting the day, looks up to the end of his bed. There's a Jacob a Lurity-sized man standing there. There's a monster there. He says, what do you want for breakfast? He's standing there and he's wearing, like, he just has, like, little, tiny little, like, cloth boxer briefs or, like, muslin boxer briefs or, like, bandages,

but it's, like, just enough to be, like, he's not naked, and we're never going to see if he has a penis or not, even though it seems like he does. And his, have you seen what his body looks like in this? No, no. It's like gray colored. It's like a blue gray. And it's like he's like, you know one of those,

you know those puzzles that they're not puzzle piece shaped, but it's still like you have to fit the whole thing together? You know, some puzzles are like not interlocking, but they just are placed. Honestly, not really. Okay. Well, it's like a puzzle. His whole skin is like

Pieces sewn to pieces Yeah, patchworky And there's like some Wounds that look like They're like still healing On the skin He's still wearing his Good Night Mommy Face wrap

Okay But he looks like a big strong Patchwork Blue Grey man Okay Okay And Oscar Isaac is Scared and he gets out of bed

And they have this moment Where he's like he's sort of backing away from the creature and the creature's like mimicking him and we sort of see that it dawns on Oscar Isaac the creature isn't there to do him harm he's just like where am I what's happening

and so Oscar Isaac was wearing his red gloves to sleep as you do and he takes them off and he shows the creature his hands he's like look these are like yours and he walks up to the creature and he like opens the window he's like look sunlight like this is sun this is God and he says like I'm Victor Victor the creature says

Victor and Oscar says like Yes oh my God Yes yes yes that's right that's right He's like over the moon And camp and is so delighted and enchanted He puts his head to his chest To hear his heartbeat

He hears the heartbeat The creature like puts his hands around him Like a hug It's beautiful Okay Victor takes the creature down into the chamber of secrets Where the creature sees the little like stream of water And is like delighted by it

like a kid's delighted by puddles and it keeps being like ho ho ho and it's like touching the water and victor's like yes yes that's water isn't this fun oh my goodness oh my goodness like giddy giggling he's like come with me come with me takes the creature over where he has a slab of concrete that he's got chains on and he's like okay come with me come with me and he chains the creature to the slab of concrete and he gives him a blanket he says he's a blanket for warmth and i'll be back later i'll see you later and starts to walk away and the creature like gets up scared like where are you going and is stopped by his chains and is then confused and is like what's happening where are you going and Victor's like it's okay I'll be back no it's fine it's fine don't worry to see you later see later

oh really not a caretaker is he this Victor oh brother do we know whose brain it is that's in there is there any discussion of that okay just curious and Victor walks walks away into the part of the castle where water tower that looks like the east wing of beauty and the beast and His Vio says, I never thought what would come after creation. The achievement felt a natural, void of meaning, and this troubled me so. Weeks go by, and as his strength increased,

rapidly mine waned. No further language or development occurred. And we see Victor is shaving the creature's head because he wants to check in on all of his healing and a little bit of hair had grown. So shaving his head, clearly his energy toward the creature is completely different. He is exasperated. You know, the creature keeps trying to look in the mirror to like look at himself and he's like, stop it,

stop it, stop turning your head. He's like kind of manhandling him. Victor's complaining. He's like, I haven't slept at all. I'm just taking care of you and I'm not getting any sleep. And it's just like such a like metaphor for parenting. The creature picks up the razor because he doesn't know what it is. And he holds it in his palm and he slices into his palm. And Victor's like, God, no why did you do that stop it drop that that's so stop it drop it drop it you're so stupid why would you do that it's like don't die told you not to do that you don't don't hurt yourself and it's just being like horrible to the creature and then he looks at his palm and realizes it's like already healing so this monster heals very very quickly cut to we see that elizabeth and william are on

their way to come visit the water tower she's been very concerned that they haven't heard from her uncle in a while so we see victor chaining the creature back up in the Chamber of Secrets, the creature says once again, Victor. And Victor get so fucking mad. He's like, that's the only thing you know how to say. Victor, Victor, Victor, Victor. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Yeah. And he, like, goes over to him and he's like, what, can't you say anything else? Say something else. And the creature, like, retreats from him. Like, he's scared. He's like, oh, you're scared of me. Why would you be scared to me?

I'm your maker. Why are you scared of me? Oh, my fucking God. Horrible. This really pisses me off, honestly. Just then he hears the carriage approaching. So he's like, oh, fuck, fuck, he goes upstairs, opens the door, William and Elizabeth there, and he's like,

come in, you guys, oh, my God, welcome! It's so good to see you. Like, come in, come in, come here, oh, my God, oh, my God. And he's like, he grabs them. He's like, come in my notes. This is so great. I'm so, so, so, so glad you're here. He's being, like, so manic and insane, and they are immediately, like,

the fuck is up with you. Elizabeth says, where's my uncle? And he's like, oh, he's just in town. Like, he'll be back. It's totally fine. just like, come on, come, come inside, come upstairs. Look at my toys. So he takes William and he goes upstairs.

Elizabeth does not follow them. She stays in the entryway and she hears quietly, Victor. Follow the son of the voice, finds herself in the Chamber of Secrets. She sees the creature. Is immediately very curious, very concerned, very maternal, very horny. Okay. All at once.

Wow. That is confusing. And to Mia Goss' credit, you see that all written all over her face. My God, what a perfect actress. A big mix of feelings that she's having. She comes up to him. She's wearing a stunning hat. It is important to know that she's always wearing an incredible hat.

There's like a teal chiffon cape over this big, like, structured hat around her head. She unveils it. And the monster's like, to the creature. He's like looking at her and she's looking at him. And he like one by one like peels her gloves off her hand. It's very sensual. Like, peels her gloves off, looks at her hands. She's like putting her hands to his chest, looking at all the scars.

She sees that one is bleeding and she says, who hurt you? Oh, I wonder who. Cut to upstairs. William is showing Victor that he got a letter at his house in Vienna addressed to Victor from the medical society now being interested in his research and William's like isn't this so great? That's what you always wanted.

Victor's like I can't do with that right now. Like no, it tosses the letter aside. Elizabeth storms in and is like, what the fuck? Who is who's that man? Is he your victim? Like what did you do to him?

What are all those scars? And Victor's like, oh, you found him. Like yeah, yeah, yeah. Awesome. No, come see that. That's like my whole big thing. Like, let's go see. Brings William and Elizabeth down

to see him. Start showing him off. like he's a slab of meat is like turning him around for them and is like see see look at this like I built him I brought him back to life he like smacks him he's like he's nice and sturdy none of this context is lost on the creature he's feeling like embarrassed and used and objectified Jacob Lordy is really doing a great performance in this role and Elizabeth asks why is he chained up and Oscar Isaac's like Victor it's like oh it's but for my safety and for his and It's also easier to clean and maintain it, and it doesn't know any better.

And she says, but you do? Oh, damn. She leans down to the creature who's, like, cowered now on the ground by the water because he loves the water. And he, like, holds up her glove to give it back to her. She takes it, and they're having, like, a very sweet little moment of connection. And Victor sees this and is fucking pissed. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Jealous. later that night

William tucks Victor into bed just an interesting thing that happens and he asks him did you ever ask yourself of all the parts that make that man did you ever ask which part holds the soul

and Victor says I did not down in the chamber we see the creature is taking leaves one by one and like looking at them and putting them into

the little river of water and watching them flow down into the sea see and like doing it again and it's just it's very childlike wonder and just entertaining himself in his little world he's still chained up and we see elizabeth comes down to see him in a very not nasty nightgown it's absolutely gorgeous it's like a sky blue ethereal ruffled chiffony work of beauty she comes down and sits on his little slab of concrete with him they're like cross-legged facing each other and he gives her a leaf and she says a leaf for me thank you i just really need to like the way she says it

is absolutely adorable a leaf for me thank you and she says i'm elizabeth my throat makes sounds elizabeth she like grabs his hand and puts it on her throat elizabeth can you say Elizabeth? He is just looking at her in absolute wonder. She says, okay, well, I've got to go. And she goes back upstairs and as she's walking away

she's just out of earshot we see the creature say, Elizabeth. Oh, he's learned a new name. As she goes back upstairs, we see Victor emerge from the shadows and he says, you shouldn't be going near it. And she says, it. And he says,

yes, it. he says it's not smart it's not intelligent all it knows is one word victor victor victor victor victor and she says because perhaps for the time being that word is everything to him perhaps in being made anew he's purer and more simple and and more lovely than a regular man and he's like oh my god you want to fuck it she's like no i just i understand it

and he's fucking pissed off and she tells him only monsters play God she leaves he goes downstairs to the Chamber of Secrets and he grabs a metal rod to like chain him up more tightly

because he's so fucking pissed he's like oh you're so pure huh you're so pure and simple and good because one of the things she said but she was like I saw pain in his eyes and what is pain if not a demonstration of intelligence And so Victor grabs another metal rod And he's like, pain is a sign of intelligence, right?

Let's see. Give me your leg. And he starts fucking hitting him with a metal rod. And the creature finally grabs the metal rod, starts roaring and like bends it. Uh-huh. Yep. Yep. Here we go.

Victor! Okay. And all guys is like, okay, I'm going to go. And runs out of there. Next day, Victor grabs William. And he's like, okay. so I made a mistake and the monster's actually really bad

and I need to show you something don't tell Elizabeth I need to show you something and he takes him down to a freezer room that he has where he's got Christoph Waltz's body on ice and he's like so by the way he's dead

including his smashed head yep he says the creature killed him in a fit of rage oh you piece of shit so you need to take Elizabeth out of here for her own safety I will deal with the creature that you have to get out of here.

Don't tell her anything. Keep her in the dark. So they go to leave and they get in the carriage, drive away, and Victor starts dousing the whole fucking place in gasoline. The most gasoline that has ever existed on planet Earth. This man has 5,000 containers of gasoline and he is putting it

everywhere. In the carriage, we see Elizabeth turns to William and she says, I have the most terrible feeling. Turn the carriage around. Turn the carriage around. He's going to kill him. Cut back to the chamber of secrets.

Victor goes over to the creature and he says, say one word. One other word. Make me save you. The creature looks at him. And I think in a defiant tone says, Victor. Nice, nice. Because he knows Elizabeth. And Victor's like, all right, motherfucker.

And goes to leave. And the creature says, Elizabeth. And Victor turns, is like, I'm still going to fucking kill you. Leaves. That doesn't count. That doesn't count. We see he walks out the front door, tosses a match behind him.

The whole place starts going up in flames. He walks out of the house. Fire is spreading everywhere. We see fire spreading through the chamber of secrets. The creature is pulling on his chains, trying to get out, screaming, Victor, Victor! Cut to outside of the house.

We see Victor here. this and having this moment of what the fuck have I done turns, goes to go back into the house, opens the door, it explodes, throws him back, thrown onto the lawn, we look down,

we see that explosion like fucking blew through his leg. This is where the prosthetic has come from. As the carriage pulls up with Elizabeth and William in it, the entire water tower explodes, shards of stone fall from the sky, cut to black.

We're back on the ship and we hear the men on the ship we're in the captain's quarters we hear the men on the ship outside starting to yell the captain says to Victor like hold on a second

I just need to go assure my men that everything's fine opens the door creatures right there and he grabs the captain storms into the room raises his hand above the captain and Victor says

stop stop I'm here I'm here And so he stops. He's got his hand raised. And the captain says, go on, beast. Confirm your master's tail. Or your maker's tail. Confirm your maker's tail. And he says, the creature says, my maker told his tale. Then I will tell you mine. Oh, yeah. Chiron. Creature's tale. Oh, my God. A perspective shift. A perspective shift. But I will say this is. so it's and this great and this is my favorite part of the movie but truly my first time watching it this happened and I went oh my god like I was like you must be joking we're starting over we don't we pick it up from this point but I was still like oh like I can't do a second longer but now we get the creature's tail we cut back to that same moment in the chamber of secrets voiceover

now from the creature and he says I called your name and understood I was alone. We see the creature managed to break free of his chains just in time he gets in that little river and gets himself down the chute out into the ocean just as the place explodes. It is a very, very, very funny bit of CGI. It looks like a CGI video of a water slide.

Like it's so, so funny. I'm telling you, it's cuckoo bananas. They're like, people are definitely taking a bathroom break during this part of the movie. So let's just phone it in here. Absolutely the silliest looking shot I've ever seen. Because the rest of the movie looks really good and like high quality. So it's funny for there to just be like one spot. There's a couple. There's a couple of funny moments.

There's a couple. Okay. But he's made it out, made it out to safety, fade to black. And we see the creature reemerge, washed up on shore some ways away. He gets himself up. He kind of looks around him. He also moves very like, I kept being reminded of poor things. It's like a man baby who's like learning the world for the first time. And so he's like, this is his first time out of that house, out of that basement. He's like seeing the world.

We see him stumble into the woods. He finds the coat of a dead soldier on the ground. He takes it. He puts it on. He's wandering through the woods. He comes upon a deer. And the deer is not afraid of him. And the deer is eating berries off a plant.

And creature sits down with him and he watches him. He takes a berry out and he feeds it to the deer and the deer eats it. And he's like, oh, and he takes a berry. And then he eats it. And he's having like a little snack moment with this deer and he's like loving it. And it's so cute and beautiful. And then the deer gets shot in the head. And we see two hunters up on the cliff above.

They see the creature and they're like, what the fuck is that? They shoot at him. They get him. But obviously that's not going to take him down. So he continues on. They're like, what the fuck was that? He, the creature makes it out of the woods. He escapes the hunters, finds himself in a clearing where there is a little wooden home.

and it's cold it's raining he feels at his wound and his voiceover is like my wounds had healed but i was cold so very cold and so he goes into this house and he finds shelter in their like barn room you know in paris to the caribbean i'm only ever going to relate this to other movies you know in paris to the caribbean um uh jack sparrow the other one uh or Orlando blooms character i was like i was like what is his fucking name Orlando bloom's character has that like gear tourney thing in that, then that like,

it's like a barn room, but there's like gears and stuff. Wait, isn't he like an apprentice to a blacksmith or something? But it's not that, but there's one of those gear things in it. It's like a small wooden room kind of like that with like a gear thing in it.

And a bunch of little rats. I saw that movie when I was 13 and haven't seen it since. But yes, yes. I remember the gear. I mean, yeah, I would love to rewatch Pirates the Caribbean for some reason. It's actually worth a rewatch. the first one. Anyway.

So he's in a room like that. It's like kind of a barn, but there's no animals, you know? Right, right. But there are a bunch of little rats, and they love him. For the rest of the sequence where he's in this barn area, rats are always like hanging out on his shoulders, like being his best little friends. Okay. Very Cinderella.

And so he finds shelter in this little barn. We see the family arrives back to their home. It was the hunters that we saw in the woods and a wife, daughter, and the grandfather, who is blind and the barn is like built on the side of the house so like through the wooden slats the creature can kind of see into the house and he's just like watching them and he sees the old man and the young girl being like very sweet together and he says the old man moved me his unseeing eyes were full of wisdom cut to a montage of the creature watching this family and he says these people possessed a sound, used it to tell each other about feelings and ideas. They're called

words. Oh, he couldn't hear them before when they were coming from Victor because they were so mean. We see the old man is teaching the young girl how to read. He's like holding up flashcards. He's like, what is this word? And when she gets it right, he turns the card around and puts it down. And the creature is watching from behind. So he's seeing the side of the card. And so he's learning how to read. Amazing. The creature explains, in his voiceover, he's like, I wanted to help them. I decided to become their benefactor. And we hear them one day saying how they're going to need to collect a bunch more firewood

as they're approaching winter and it's going to take them so long. The next morning we see they wake up to bundles and bundles and bundles of wood outside their door. He repairs the like fence for their sheep in the middle of the night. They come out, oh, my God, who could have done this. The old man is like, oh, it must be the spirit of the forest. But he kind of has a knowing look. in his eye, as he says this.

And so then they start leaving offerings for the spirit of the forest. They leave him food. They leave him clothes. So he's got this, like, really lovely little relationship happening with this family. And he says, for a while, I was at peace. But then some wolves arrive. And let me tell you what, these wolves are the fucking craziest wolves you've ever. These wolves, Guillermo must fucking hate wolves because these wolves are unbelievable.

They are so mean, so intense, so fucking gnarly. These wolves are so gnarly. Wolves are like sometimes are depicted as being like 12 feet long too. Like how big is a wolf? I have no idea. These wolves are massive and absolutely supernatural. Bloodthirsty. And bloodthirsty.

And these wolves, they come and we see them, they're like digging under the door of the barn in the house trying to get in. Like wolves, I can't even fathom wolves ever being this way. But they're really trying to get in. They start killing the sheep. the family gets up they manage to shoot a few of them and so the rest of the wolves leave

and the creature says his VO says I learned then the hunter doesn't hate the wolf the wolf doesn't hate the sheep but violence feels inevitable perhaps that is the way of the world you will be hunted and killed

just for being who you are well brutal take brutal the family decides they need to leave for the winter, because they need to get away from the wolves. They'll come back after the winter. The old man says, this is my home. I'm not leaving.

You can go without me. And so they do. And the creature says, I decided to reveal myself to the old man. So he comes into the house with the old man who is blind but does notice his presence and basically says, you've been here the whole time, haven't you? You've been hiding out on the barn. You did all those things for us. He sort of imagines he says, like,

you must be a wounded soldier. We can't tell if he knows something more than he's letting on. But he says, you know, I can tell you're a good person and I'm glad you're here. Stay here with me. Share my food. Share my fire. And offer me your companionship. And you can read to me.

And so the creature starts to read to him. And he says, and then I read my first book. And it's the Bible. Oh, okay. The creature's first book that he ends. ever learns how to read is the Bible. And so he starts reading the Bible out loud to the old man. And we have a lovely little friendship montage. They are going on hikes together. They're reading. They experience their first snowfall. The creature goes out into the snow and is like so enchanted by

snow. And the old man says, oh, you must never have seen snow before. I mean, they're really, it's just absolutely beautiful. It's the power of a good father. Exactly. Man, they're hard to come by. It's devastating. The creature one night says to the old man that he wants to know who he is. He wants to understand where he came from. The old man says, you don't remember. And he says, I remember pieces, different men.

I remember fire and water. And one word, Victor. And the... Old man basically says, you know, in this life, when awful things happen, the greatest thing you can do for yourself is to learn to forgive. It's the greatest act of strength you can show and the great kindness to yourself. And he says, I cannot forgive what I cannot remember. So the old man encourages him. Go back to the place you came from and see if you can find some answers. And so he does. He goes back to the Water Tower. It's the remit. It's the remit.

of the water tower. He walks through the space. He finds, you know, pieces of singed notes of victors, photographs that Harlander took, and he starts to understand who he is. He says, Then I learned the horror of the truth. I understood that I was nothing, not even of the same nature as man. This hurt blotted me mind. I could not let it go. He then on the ground finds the letter that was addressed to Victor for the medical association that he discarded. And he says, And then I found your name, Victor Frankenstein, and exactly where to find you. He returns home to the old man's house to discover

those motherfucking wolves came back. Are you serious? He runs in, entering in a rage, roars, fucks these wolves up. He is so pissed. These wolves, again, they're jumping on his head.

These wolves are unstoppable, but they actually are susceptible because the creature is much stronger. But one, like, jumps in his back. He grabs its pelt, scalps it, and then flings its skinless head corpse across the room, picks another one up, throws it.

He's like breaking him in half. He lays waste to these wolves. Is this his new jacket? Wolfpack? I think probably this is his new jacket. Yeah. Okay. The wolves leave.

He finds the old man. The old man says, you came back. And the creature tells him, I mean, this old man is in bad shape. I should say this man has been attacked by wolves. Right, right, right. The creature tells him,

I found out what I am. A wreckage assembled from refuse of the discarded dead. A monster. The old man says, I know what you are. A good man and my friend. Oh, sweet.

And then the old man dies. What? And just then the family comes back to find the creature there over the dead old man. They think it's him. They think it's him. they shoot him he stands up

he comes up to one of the guys and he rips his jaw off his face another man stabs him with a big curved scy blade creature storms out they pursue him they shoot him a bunch of times

and they leave him for dead in the snow screen fades to black his voiceover says there was silence again and then merciless life And we see him come back to life in the snow. His voiceover is,

I felt lonelier than ever. For every man there is but one remedy to pain. Death, a gift you two had denied me. Back on the ship, the creature says to Victor, I decided to ask you one kindness, my maker, a companion. Cut to Victor waking up from a nightmare. At William's House in Vienna, it is William and Elizabeth's Wedding Day. he is putting on his prosthetic leg, like a metal leg that he ties on, which I'm like, you literally

built a human being and brought him back to life. Why couldn't you build yourself another leg? I don't understand, but that's fine. He goes to see Elizabeth and he says, hey, everything that happened before, I'm really sorry. And I just wish you all the best. And I just want you to know that, like, I only want you to be happy and we're all good. And she says, oh, you might believe that. But on my wedding day, I ask for one simple grace. No more lies. Leave my chambers now. He tries to stay and say one more thing and she slaps him across the face. It says, leave. He storms back into his room that did not go how he wanted it to go. He sees that the balcony door is open. Curtains are blowing into the room. He has a bad feeling. He looks around the room, looks into the corner of the room and he says,

come out of the shadows if you are here and the creature reveals himself and Victor says are you here to thank me you're clearly alive still and intelligent enough to have found me the creature says I need you to make a companion

for me one like me he says another monster yes we can be monsters together oh my god stop I cannot die, and I cannot live alone. Wow.

And Victor says, in you I have created something truly horrible. Oh my God, Victor, shut the fuck up. He says, not something, someone. You made some one. Whatever puzzle I am to you, maker, I think and I feel, and I petition you, make one like me. And Victor, with all the disdain, a human can muster, is like, and then what? Procreation, reproduction, a home, death, begetting death, begetting death, it's obscene. And he says, I am obscene to you, but to myself, I simply am.

Oh, my God. He's getting out of brass tacks. And he says, be gone. Never again will I make something like you, wicked and deformed. And the creature says, then it is still about your worst. Will, Victor, the miracle is not that I should speak, but that you would ever listen. And he picks him up and he throws him across the room. Oh, my God, I felt that so many times. And he says, if you will not reward me love, then I will indulge in rage, and mine is infinite. Picks him up, throws him again, smashes the posters of a gorgeous four-poster bed, all this noise.

By the way, this is a full house in this house, because it's wedding day. So there's people all around having a great old time. Gorgeous gowns. All the women are dressed like brides. Like all the other women are wearing white gowns with white chiffon capes over their faces. Indulging in merriment. It's gorgeous.

It's fabulous. But they're hearing all this noise. So is Elizabeth. And we see, by the way, when she kicked Victor out of her chambers, she opened her little diary where she had a leaf in it. The very same leaf for me. Thank you. And so Elizabeth, she follows the noise.

She goes into Victor's room and sees the creature there. She goes to him. She's like, it's you. Goes to him. He goes to her. She touches his face. They hug on the ground. We see Victor, see a gun next to him.

He pulls the gun out. He says, Elizabeth, get away from him. She sees, she turns, sees it about to shoot. But she goes, no, runs in front of him as Victor shoots. He shoots her. Just then, William and some other men from the wedding rush in. They see that Elizabeth has been hurt. And Victor says, it was.

the creature. He hurt her. William and two other men charge the creature. He tosses them aside. William smacks his head on a marble mantle. Bleeding. Not looking good. The other men just stand back and the creature picks up. Elizabeth carries her baby style or like, you know, bride over a threshold out through the house. Absolutely stunning. She's wearing this white, gorgeous, huge, multi-layer chiffon gown silk ribbons wrapped all around her arms and he's carrying her

and it's just these white layers on layers on layers that are slowly from the center like filling with red as her blood begins to spill absolutely stunning he carries her through the house and out I swear I heard somebody in the like extra background crowd

go oh my God um Victor runs up to William examining his wound, it's not looking good. He's not going to make it, but he says, William, I can save you. And William says, from what? From you?

I fear you. I always have. You are the monster. Damn. And then he dies. Damn. The thesis of the book. Yeah. Victor, enraged, grabs a big gun,

charges out of his house to go after the creature. Outside, we see the creature has carried Elizabeth into a little cave. lays her down on a slab of stone. She says, My place was never in the world. In you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love.

And its brevity, its tragedy, it has been made eternal. Better this way to fade with your eyes gazing upon me. Wow, she has seen the silver lining in this. And she dies. Yeah. Damn. Damn.

Yeah. Outside, we see Victor has followed the trail of blood, into the cave. he comes in the creature very quickly grabs him he says you gave me life unwanted i give that back to you you thought me a monster now i return the favor and he slowly puts his thumb on his nose and breaks it throws him on the ground he says i will make you bleed i will make you humble you may be my maker but from this day forward I will be your master

hell yeah oh the tables have turned fucking awesome and this is one of the things I was like give me a whole movie of this this fucking rules right have this come sooner and this be like John Wick Frankenstein like this is what

I want you want it to be like the Walter White episode where he's like I'm powerful and the creature leaves leaves him abandoned in that cave bleeding Victor follows he grabs the gun and he's trying to shoot at him but the creature is gaining distance and Victor follows him. He just keeps going and going and the creature says, You hunted me past the forests, past the mountains, past frozen horizons, until there was nothing left, just you and me. Cut to the furthermost north. We see now a very bearded Victor going into a shop

buying ammunitions, dynamite, and milk. Milk. We see him out in the tundra. He's got his sled dogs. He looks out in the distance and he sees the creature just standing, staring at him. He goes to his tent to get his gun. We see the shadow of the creature approaching. He goes to open the tent. Victor shoots him. The creature moves around the back of the tent.

Victor's loading his gun and before he can get it loaded. The creature grabs inside, drags him out. And he says, Victor, you only listen when I hurt you, stabs him, breaks his hand, grabs Victor's whole, or, yeah,

Victor's holding on his dynamite and the creature grabs it and he says, This, you think this will unmake me? Light it. Let's hope it does. But if it does not, I will come back for you.

Light it. And he does. And the creature stands there holding that lit dynamite and he looks at Victor and he says, Now, run. Victor runs. Creature stands with the dynamite. He holds it to his heart, closes his eyes.

Bang! Big explosion. Victor gets tossed onto the snow, which is how we found him at the beginning. We see the creature. Singed coat, that big old coat burning up, but he ain't dead. Damn, it didn't, like, explode him into a bunch of little bits.

Didn't explode him into a bunch of little bits. I know. And he says, I could feel my skin regret. rowing, my bones resetting, my blood pumping through my incessant heart. And so I, finding no mercy, had but one path. Now we're back in the ship, and we're in present time. And the creature says, and here we are, spent and done. No more in us to give or take.

I will bleed, ache, suffer. You see, it will never end. The captain is looking on, like, holy shit. fucking story. Victor's looking at him and he says, I am sorry. Regrette consumes me. And I now regard my life for what it was. The creature sits down next to Victor, takes his hand. He says, You will go now, Creator. Fade away. It will all be but a brief moment. My birth, my grief, your loss. I will not be punished nor absolved. What? hope I had, what rage, it is all nothing. The tide that brought me here now comes to take you

away, leaving me stranded. Victor says, forgive me my son, and if you have it in your heart, forgive yourself into existence for my son, if you are not to die, what recourse do you have but to live? Say my name, my father gave it to me and it meant nothing. Now I ask you to give it back to me one last time. How you said it at the beginning when it meant the world to you. And the creature says, Victor, I forgive you. Oh, my fucking God. And he kisses his forehead.

Stop. And he says, rest now, father. Perhaps we can both now be human. And Victor dies. Holy shit. And the captain opens his door To the captain's quarters To let the creature out

He says to his men Let him go The creature Walks through the men Descends the ladder Gets back onto the ice He pulls his hood up over his head He walks over to the side of the ship

And he pushes Until it's free from the ice Damn And back out to sea Damn The captain tells the crew We're sailing home And they all cheer.

Wow. They're not going to the North Pole. He learned his lesson from Victor's Tale. Wow. We see the creature out on the ice, walking out towards the horizon. There's the most gorgeous sunset happening. He stares at it.

We go in on his face. We see a single tear falling down his face. He closes his eyes to take it all in. fade to black and we have a quote on the screen and thus the heart will break yet brokenly live on lord byron and that's the end of the movie holy fucking shit oh my god emily that was first of all poetry you just that was one of the greatest challenges of my life poetry is poetry holy holy cow I really wish we'd been doing, we were going to do this movie beforehand, aka I wish I'd

remembered all the conversations we had about the fact that we were going to do this movie because this is clearly like touching on so many themes I'm obsessed with. Yeah. So obsessed with. And I want to know everything about Mary Shelley. I want to know everything also about her mom, Mary Wollong, how do you say her name, Wollingcroft, who was like a feminist, like a trailblazing feminist in the early 19th century. maybe late, no, like late 18th century.

I mean, these ideas we're still grappling with. Absolutely. We're still dealing with all of this shit. It's also so wild that it's like the creature is actually like the dearest thing to ever exist. Like he is perfect and he's the kindest, sweetest, super strength creation. Like if he had just been nice to him from the beginning, it would have been the best fucking thing in the world. They would have had a great time. Yes, yes. And the problem, this is why the problem, the problem that I guess, like, no, I don't know where the solution is, is like all the self-hatred. Because everything was just a projection. Like he was just projecting all of his self-hatred onto this creation. And, yeah.

The folly of only being driven by what else can I make, what else can I make, what else can I make, what else can I make without thinking of and then what, and then what do I do with it and what happens? And what is my, what's the intention here? What's the soul? like what am I what am I working towards right right because if you can't enjoy the beauty of a sunrise what is the point of living at all you know I will say the first time I watched this movie I was just very relieved when the movie was over because it was late and it was long but today when I rewatched the movie to take notes and I got to this final scene and I got to that single tear it actually made me so emotional yeah it's so beautiful it's true though That, like, he just decides, I'm going to live and I'm going to, like, appreciate the beauty of what's happening, right? It's just, like, it's very powerful.

Yeah. It's really, really powerful. I mean, it's something that, like, we have yet to really crack the code on as humans. Because no matter how much we talk about it, at the end of the day, whenever we're talking about, like, how to live in this world, we're never, I don't know. God, I don't know. I just feel like there's always a conversation about, like, what's good versus what's bad. And at the end of the day, both of those things are just about control. Yeah.

And, like, really, it's just about, like, being grateful you're conscious at all, which has, like, nothing to do with control. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, and, like, you know, I was thinking a lot the first time I watched this movie about how we fear death, most of us. but if you couldn't die what a prison that would be that like framing the ability to live your life and then end your life is like what we need

in order for living to mean anything at all and boy does that feel apt in this moment of all like the so many talks about we're extending our lives by so much and like technology and AI and like what can we do and where can we go and just like but what if we just live the life that we are given, and then go away.

And also, what if we just don't hurt each other while we're doing that? Yeah. Because that's the other huge piece of it is like the idea of the parent-child relationship. And there is this like insidious sickness in human society, which we don't talk about enough, I don't think. And it's like the darkest thing to talk about. That's why we don't talk about it. But I wish more people would talk about it, which is like people hurt their kids. and that is common and like we should all be like that should be our number one priority as a society all the time it's like the only thing we should be working on all the time and we have so many movies so many TV shows we're always kind of like dancing around it and it's like what are we going to do to solve this you guys yeah and like the way you how you watch it happen in this movie at first he's so delighted by what he created and is so charmed and it's because it's all about him

It's all about what he made, what he did, how it makes him feel, the reflection of himself. And then as soon as it becomes difficult or frustrating, you can see how and why he starts hating the creature. And it, like, does ring so true. And it's horrifying. Because people see their kids as a reflection of themselves and that they just hate themselves and they're going to hate their kids. And, like, there's honestly, even, like, no amount of therapy can solve that. Like, what is a solution? Do you have to do you have to go?

through the tundra, do you have to chase someone across the ends of the earth? Like, there has to be an easier way to learn. There has to be an easier way. There has to be an easier way to learn this lesson. But I think, you know, then the other part of the lesson is all the more reason for all of us to just be as kind and good in the lives of anyone we encounter. I know. Because that, you know, that can be such a, be that old man, you know? Yeah, be that old man. Be the old man. just be the old man because we don't know who people's daddies are and also but the old man being blind I think was also such an important piece of it because I think a huge part of it is that just like power corrupts like any amount of power corrupts and so even just having the power of like

being a gender that is more powerful automatically kind of corrupts well and fear otherwise is anything we're scared of and so that's also why fear is used as such a tactic to to make us hate people to make us like yeah like trans people are a threat to you it's like that's literally insane it's insane but we can weaponize fear and unknown to make us hate each other and a thing I kept thinking too in this movie was I was like honestly like the creature doesn't look that weird like he kind of just looks like a guy with a bunch of scars I like why are we all being something to him like he's just like a really tall man with some scars yeah I don't know I don't know it's like a really fucked part of our human nature and I don't like it I don't like it one bit I don't like it

one bit yeah yeah I have so many thoughts about this I want to think about it more because the other thing I was thinking about too is that you know Mia goth's character is so interesting in this yeah I do take some issue with the female representation in this movie well one of the you know common stereotypes about women that has like been used as a a reason to keep women in a certain space as they uphold, like, the values of morality and... I really, I really do take issue with the one female character being, like, the only one who is compassionate and true and moral, but also horny. Right, right, right. She is, she is mother and mistress. And it's like, well, I, that sucks.

And then she's happy to die. Like, she's also like, well, thank God I get to die. I think that's bad, generally speaking. Right, right. But the thing that's also true is that she is the only one who recognizes besides the old man. Like his, she sees his goodness right away. Yeah. And that is important, too. So I don't know.

Man, I want to read Frankenstein. Yeah. I want to read everything about Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley. what a like they were like the who's who back then you know they're like the literati in in those days yeah and i kind of forgot about that and i want to like find out more it's pretty fucking cool that a woman wrote this book her mom was like a we're still talking about it's fucking awesome her mom was a real fucking badass and i'm pretty sure that mary shelly and percy shelley i'm pretty sure she lost her virginity on the grave of her her mom's

I'm pretty sure they fucked in a cemetery on her mom's grave. And I'm pretty sure that's fact. Okay, Mary. Like, this is what I mean. I just, like, want to know more. Okay, Mary. Wait, I want to Google that. I'm pretty sure.

Wait, hold on. Okay, this is AI overview, so take it with a grain of salt. It's a widely circulated and longstanding rumor supported by historical accounts that Mary Shelley lost her virginity to Percy Shelley at the graveyard where her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, is buried. Okay. Also, she was 18 when she wrote this book. Jesus. But what was 18 then?

Like 40? Right. You got to do inflation. You got to do like... You have to adjust for inflation. You got to adjust for inflation. Which means, like, actually, we're 20. Yeah.

We've accomplished so much. Because it goes both ways. We got to adjust down for inflation. as well. We do it both ways. Always, always, always, always. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Okay, well, this has been a goddamn delight. I need to go and be silent for 12 hours. Yeah, you got to rest your vocal chords. I have a lot to think about. Also, I'm pretty sure my children are like screaming and chomping at the bit downstairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh. Okay, well, I love you too much. I love you. What an absolute delight. What a delight. What a gift. What a gift. I love you.

Love you. And I love you all. And Okay, do I do the creature's voice? Do I do Mia Gauth's voice or do I do Victor's voice? I think you do The creature and me a goth, a combo. Okay, hold on. A leaf for me?

Thank you. From all of us hear it too... I'm doing actual Mia Gauth. From all of us hear it, too scary didn't watch. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. We didn't.

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