Art/Horror filmmaker Larry Fessenden, Spirit Award winner
and Fangoria Hall of Famer, knows his Frankensteins. We previously posted his Frankenstein Mashup, a glorious edit of 27 different
Frankenstein films — Be sure to follow the link if you haven’t seen it yet!
Now, Fessenden revisits The Monster with FRANKENSTEIN CANNOT BE STOPPED, a
music video for the New York-based band Life in a Blender.
The classic Monster is evoked with a rigid, kabuki-like mask,
with lighting, shooting angles and context bringing it to life. Fessenden also
uses an animated puppet to introduce The Monster, and again at the end for its
fiery demise in the requisite burning windmill.
“I have always loved the design of the classic flat-top
Frankenstein Monster,” Fessenden says, “and
as I patched these images together I was amused to see how subtle differences
in the performance of the puppet and of Mike Vincent in the mask would evoke
specific cinematic incarnations of the monster.”
The filmmaker had Frankensteinia readers in mind! “I
thought of your readers...” he writes. “Who
else could distinguish between Karloff, Glenn Strange, Herman Munster and the
Aurora model kit!”
The clip is a loving homage to the James Whale original, and
the song is a tragic ballad of The Monster’s disastrous flower game with the
little girl.
With thanks to Larry Fessenden.
Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix Productions
Life in a Blender website
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