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The Frankenstein Scrapbook: The Complete Movie Guide to the World's Most Famous Monster

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Stephen Jones has made a career out of compiling and reviewing Horror in film and literature and has made many notable achievments in the genre releasing many terrific anthologies over the years. As a critic he lacks something, call it enthusiasm and insight. Call it passion. Call it life. It's just not there.

This book attempts to cover every major attempt at the Frankenstein story from the silent era through the 90s(it was published in 1995) and every film on the similar subject of man made monsters both in the genre and beyond.

Most of the films the author has clearly not seen and so most films recieved a low one lighting bolt review(equivalent to a star) and that system becomes increasingly useless as most films in here barely pass. For a guy so immersed in the genre, this author seems to care very little for it, even going so far as to give a four out of five to the 1931 Frankenstein! Somethings rotten in this guide to Frankenstein and it's that review system. He compensates by utilizing several cool photographs(several in color!) and poster art to decorate the book and even has an introduction written by Boris Karloff on his most famous performance, but it's just window dressing to what amounts to a very, shallow review guide.

As a curio piece for Frankenstein fans, this is not bad for all the titles covered, but for anyone seeking serious reviews on the genre, than avoid this author's guides like the plague. In fact maybe you should just buy Phil Hardy's "Overlook Encyclopedia to Horror" and forget buying guides like this altogether.