Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 16 segments
Bob and Brad tackle the show's first double feature, watching James Whale's *Frankenstein* (1931) and *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935) back-to-back alongside **Sagamore Spirit Bottled in Bond Rye**, and…
Now, Brad, before we dive into the movies in earnest here, during COVID, you know, we were all locked in our homes with not much to do.
And I decided to take some COVID time to just catch up on movies that were big blind spots for me.
And at the time, I want to say they were either coming out with the 4Ks or the Blu-rays of the universal classic horror films.
And for those who aren't super familiar, this was one of the first kind of shared universes of characters under one studio.
But in earnest, 1931 kicked off this run of classic universal monster movies, starting with Dracula and then later on in the year Frankenstein, which became such a big hit that it then kind of sparked them to do movies like The Invisible Man and The Wolfman and The Mummy, also with Boris Karloff.
all of these movies generating tons and tons of sequels but then also crossover movies so like at one point in the frankenstein franchise you have frankenstein meets the wolfman and it's just like the godzilla kong of its day you know what i mean like yeah so it's it's great and i decided like i'm at least gonna watch the originals of all of those classic universal monsters I will say some of those movies more successful than others.
But I think if you're just going to watch one as a representative example, Frankenstein's kind of the one.
It was, you know, kind of like when we talk about how Iron Man in 2008 came out at like the same year as the Edward Norton Incredible Hulk.
And it's like, yeah, but we count Iron Man as the one we want to count as the start because it just was better and a bigger, a bigger hit.
And I think that's kind of how we treat Frankenstein today among those universal classic monsters.
And I'm not sure how you want to approach this because I think we could spend the entire episode... talking about the comparisons between the two films.
And I think that could highlight both films enough for our incredible audience to get the gist and the feel for what we think of each movie.
The primary my primary theme for the day is that these movies have one good script between them.
Now, Brad, before we dive into the movies in earnest here, during COVID, you know, we were all locked in our homes with not much to do.
And I decided to take some COVID time to just catch up on movies that were big blind spots for me.
And at the time, I want to say they were either coming out with the 4Ks or the Blu-rays of the universal classic horror films.
And for those who aren't super familiar, this was one of the first kind of shared universes of characters under one studio.
But in earnest, 1931 kicked off this run of classic universal monster movies, starting with Dracula and then later on in the year Frankenstein, which became such a big hit that it then kind of sparked them to do movies like The Invisible Man and The Wolfman and The Mummy, also with Boris Karloff.
all of these movies generating tons and tons of sequels but then also crossover movies so like at one point in the frankenstein franchise you have frankenstein meets the wolfman and it's just like the godzilla kong of its day you know what i mean like yeah so it's it's great and i decided like i'm at least gonna watch the originals of all of those classic universal monsters I will say some of those movies more successful than others.
But I think if you're just going to watch one as a representative example, Frankenstein's kind of the one.
It was, you know, kind of like when we talk about how Iron Man in 2008 came out at like the same year as the Edward Norton Incredible Hulk.
And it's like, yeah, but we count Iron Man as the one we want to count as the start because it just was better and a bigger, a bigger hit.
And I think that's kind of how we treat Frankenstein today among those universal classic monsters.
And I'm not sure how you want to approach this because I think we could spend the entire episode... talking about the comparisons between the two films.
And I think that could highlight both films enough for our incredible audience to get the gist and the feel for what we think of each movie.
The primary my primary theme for the day is that these movies have one good script between them.
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