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    The Uniqueness of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

    Even if you don't care for the old crap, humor me.


    While this isn't the only example, it is the best and most noted one. Taking your franchise monsters, THE iconic monsters of that time, and still today, and throwing them into a movie with one of the top comic acts of the day, while not compromising the horror one bit, is unique. A&C did their schtick, yet the monsters didn't come out of it looking like jokes. Bela did that well enough on his own in later years.


    So, try to figure how this would work today. Take our icons, at their most horrifying... Leatherface, Myers, Jason, etc.. If that's going too far back, I don't know, Jigsaw? Not much in the way of iconic characters to work with in recent times. Who's the hot comedy going today? As a result of being clueless, I'll throw out Adam Sandler and that Borat guy. I have no idea. So anyway, Is it even possible to pair them up with say, Jigsaw, and not have the whole thing come out as a really rotten joke?


    Remember, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the wolfman were that generation's iconic, serious, 'scary' figures. They were the straight men in this.


    You could argue Raimi and Big Chin pulled this off with Evil Dead 2 and AOD, but these weren't iconic monsters, nor was Bruce a top comic. But they worked well. Return of the Living Dead is something similar I suppose, too. It did fairly well at balancing the comic and horror.


    Freddy and Jason were pretty much comedy acts themselves at certain points. Myers just went flat bad.


    There's probably little point to this, but I thought about it, and figured I'd share. Do you think it's possible today? Throwing together the hottest comedy with the scariest horror, and not producing a giant puke ball?

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    A&C Meet F is a great comedy. It's been said that it single handedly rejuvinated a dying interest in those beloved Universal Monsters of that period. I have the DVD and throw it on now and then. Comedy teams were "en vogue" so to speak at that time - Marx Bros, Laurel & Hardy, The Dead End Kids and The 3 Stooges were some of the bigger names.

    Really don't have that today. I can see Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson possibly pulling off a horror comedy with Jason, Freddy and Michael in the mix with a surprise monster showing up at the end as did The Invisible Man in A&C Meet F. (Pinhead or Leatherface?)

    Would be nice to see something like that done Scare.

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    It's also the first reference to "Frankenstein" being the monster and not the doctor. This movie is why people today still call the Monster Frankenstein.

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    I have never finished watching it, but always plan to do it... it is on netflix streaming so maybe I will. Anyway, It is considered a clasic, and probally rightfully so. Like KM said it rejuvinated a dieing genre.

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    It wouldn't work today. Tyler Perry's "Madea Meets The Human Centipede."

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    There's no way that wouldn't be a flat out screwball comedy because The Human Centipede is ridiculous to begin with. Come to think of it, it could be hilarious.


    And you're right guys, the monster appeal was fading prior, and this was also actually the tail end of A&C's Universal days. I didn't pick up on the monster being called Frankenstein in this movie. I may very well have missed it, but I constantly hear them refer it as 'the monster'.

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    Duh, yeah. I did miss the obvious. The movie title alone is the culprit, isn't it.

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