Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Dr. Frankenstein is the original mad scientist, and with good reason: He’s ambitious, unethical, motivated by defying the laws of nature, ...

The titular Igor (voiced by John Cusack) is the assistant of Dr. Glickenstein (voiced by John Cleese), who dreams of becoming ...

In 1818, a 20-year-old woman named Mary Shelley anonymously published her first novel. Titled Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, the book told the story of the proverbial mad scientist who ...

The Scientist and the Cinemathat "psychotics took over from mad scientists in the period 1960-1984 . . . Pre-1960 horrors are dominated by science; post-1960 by sex and psychos." ...

Science, as we know it, was just coming into existence two hundred years ago; the word scientist wasn’t even coined until 1833, more than a decade after Frankenstein was published. Before then, says ...

Why people still find Dr. Frankenstein and company so unsettling— ... But still, as the boundaries of human knowledge are continually pushed, the trope of the mad scientist endures.

There is no way you can discuss mad scientists without thinking about Dr. Frankenstein. Even though the iconic chemist debuted in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel in 1818, it was Colin Clive's ...

That’s how Ouelet subverts the mad scientist trope. When Roy Batty confronts a similar Dr. Frankenstein — Dr. Tyrell in Blade Runner — the audience isn’t really sorry to see Tyrell killed ...

If you’re like me, a few standard images probably pop into your brain when you think of Frankenstein: a mad scientist with white hair sprouting from his ears, his grotesque humpbacked assistant ...

Mad scientist Dr. Laz (Larry Butler) drags colleagues to “Shellvania” to dig up historical mentor Dr. Frankenstein’s misbegotten monster for his own research — efforts nearly undone by a ...

Netflix has released the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein,' starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and more.