Frankenstein: Twenty-First Century

Scooby-Doo taught us that the real monsters are always human.

Gelsey, Scholastic Inc., 2000

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Frankenstein's monster teams up with a monster hunter named Van Helsing to fight Dracula.

Universal Picture (2004)

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

A young adult novel about what led Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein.

Judge, Roaring Brook Press, 2018

Metallica's take on Frankensteins monster.

Metallica. "Some Kind of Monster." St. Anger, Bob Rock, 2003.

Lesson plans reflect on how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has evolved over the past twenty years.

Armstrong and Lundy. 2018.

Cantor and Valdez-Moses. 1990.

October 2018's edition of Life magazine, celebrating 200 years of Frankenstein and his monster.

“Frankenstein: the Man, the Monster, the Legacy.” Life, 12 Oct. 2018.

Frankenstein, MD is a 2014 modern video adaptation of the classic novel.

Source: https://youtu.be/M4Xg_enWRTk

A film that plays on some of the aspects in the novel and ties them into current fears.

20th Century Fox (2004)

A 2006 television skit that parodies the novel's core themes.

Saturday Night Live. “The Curse of Frankenstein - SNL.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Aug. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZCDuWIDZw.

Victor Frankenstein and his assistant Igor face the repercussions of thier human body part research experiment that goes very wrong.

20th Century Fox (2015)

These items are bound together by their existence in the twenty-first century and have twisted the original narrative of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into something altogether different. Taking on modern attitudes as well as absorbing ideas from artifacts of the past, this leg of the exhibition combines classic interpretations with fresher, unique distortions of the creature that lend themselves to anything from movies, to lesson plans, to cartoons. Click on each image for more information about the artifact.