Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred cinema legends from Boris Karloff to Robert De Niro – and even Alvin and the Chipmunks. From tales of science gone mad (Jurassic Park) to stories of understanding the other (ET, The Hulk, Arrival), traces of the story and its themes have spread across our media. With Frankenstein Re-membered, video artist and film historian Chris Gerrard collects these diverse fragments from the birth of cinema until the present day and in the tradition of Victor Frankenstein himself, attempts to stitch them back together into an adaptation of the original Shelley novel.

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The...

When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife, he inherits an eter...

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sin...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducte...

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A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) t...

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall succ...

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