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Unspooled

Frankenstein

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul reanimate 1931's literary creature feature Frankenstein! They learn Boris Karloff's real name, discuss what the film has to say about the human act of creation, and ask why "burgermaster" is no longer a public title. Plus: A quick look at the follow-up "Bride Of Frankenstein." This is the first episode of our "Unghouled" horror miniseries; next week's film is The Babadook! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf, and apply to be a guest on Screen Test at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0

The year is 1931 and it's it's the beginning of our horror series podcast the movie Frankenstein

0:30.8

Hey everybody welcome to unspooled I am Paul Sheer. I'm Amy Nicholson and this is the podcast where

0:37.6

we are making our definitive list of the best movies of all time. We've already gone through the

0:43.0

A.F.I.List and now we have 60 slots open to be in contention for the best movies of all time

0:49.6

once we find those 60 films will add them to our list and we'll blast off 100 films into outer

0:54.8

space Amy and my line. You are not lying I'm so serious about this I am so serious to like

1:01.1

impress the aliens and get them let me hang out with them when we blow up this planet. Well you know

1:05.4

we are embarking on a brand new mini series we just finished our coming of age back to school

1:12.4

mini series which was a lot of fun and we're taking a very different turn for October we are

1:17.6

embracing horror and we have a big fun lineup coming up and again we turn to you for our final

1:24.2

episode you will be picking the last episode in this mini series but we have picked I think

1:30.8

some pretty great and diverse films now we will come back to horror there are other horror films

1:36.3

out there this is just our entry in our our our introduction our first electrode if you yes exactly

1:45.2

we will be talking about Frankenstein today which was kicked off the 1997 list but do you want to

1:50.1

maybe go through a real quick Amy and Casey don't know the other films that will be coming up in

1:54.5

this mini series I will all right well after you are terrorized by Frankenstein you'd better hide

2:01.6

under your bed because here comes the Baba Duke and then you have to batten down your doors because

2:07.6

it's the night of the living dead just when you thought it was safe to get high and watch horror

2:13.9

films it's gone John Hess and then what's that coming out of the basement I don't know it's the

2:19.7

viewers I love the way that you've presented these this will be actually really a fun series we tried

2:28.0

to pick very diverse films and some things that you haven't heard about and some things that you

2:32.0

might be very familiar with so we look to you again like I said to pick our last one and you can do

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