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A Double Feature That's All in the Family- "Young Frankenstein" and the Original "Frankenstein"- Tonight!

Tonight on MeTV- it’s truly a double feature of monstrous classics- beginning with me presenting the Mel Brooks masterpiece “Young Frankenstein”- followed by the Sven Squad with the original film that started it all- 1931’s “Frankenstein” starring Boris Karloff!

I’ll start off the evening with an expanded show-our premiere of a film for which we have gotten many requests- Mel Brooks’ 1974 homage to the classic Universal films- “Young Frankenstein”! Shot in black and white to emulate those great movies- we begin with watching young Frederick Frankesntein delivering a lecture at a medical school- and firmly establishing that he wants no connection to his “mad scientist” grandfathe...

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