MOVIE · 1974

Young Frankenstein

Comedy106 min

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his infamous grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, and arrives ready to dismiss the family legacy as nonsense until a hidden laboratory and an old reanimation manual pull him toward the same forbidden experiment. Gene Wilder leads Mel Brooks’s black-and-white riff on classic monster movies, surrounded by Marty Feldman’s Igor, Teri Garr’s eager assistant Inga, and Cloris Leachman’s severe Frau Blücher. Peter Boyle’s Monster turns the grand Gothic setting into a source of both dread and absurdity, as the old castle, crackling machinery, and family name push the new Dr. Frankenstein toward an experiment he swore he wouldn’t repeat.