The atmosphere was electric in the Opera House last Thursday for San Francisco Ballet's revival of "Frankenstein." The crackle in the air recalled that of last year's premiere, when the house was ...

Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant but reckless scientist who brought a creature to life from stolen corpses. However, he was horrified by what he created and abandoned it, leaving the monster to ...

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

Guillermo del Toro’s heart is almost always with the monsters. Plenty of his movies have sympathetic, fully human characters, ...

Can lightning strike twice? The Producers, Mel Brooks’s musicalized version of his 1967 film comedy, was an out-of-the-blue, ain’t-Broadway-grand surprise when it opened in the spring of 2001. A ...

Guillermo del Toro's new 'Frankenstein' movie is a mega hit among fans, but how closely is it based on the original book?

Miramax is turning the song Billboard once declared the "Biggest Halloween Song of All Time" into an animated movie. Bobby "Boris" Pickett's 1962 smash hit, "Monster Mash," will finally get the ...

While Shelly hinted at the moral complexities of the monster's character in her original text, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein amplifies and brings it on-screen with an emotionally mature creature, ...