Prizes for Best Costume

at the Circleville Pumpkin Show
Circleville, Ohio

(Thanks, fellas - I had fun!)

Today's Frankenstein Day!

Colin Clive doing the "It's Alive!" scene from the 1931 movie classic

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein

Eddie Thomas - Frankenstein Rock

Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast - There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)

And just for shits and giggles,

Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle performing "Puttin' On the Ritz" from Young Frankenstein

Thomas Edison's Frankenstein

From a link on one of the blogs of the Halloween-a-thon (I wish I could remember which, and when I find it, I'll give credit), Thomas Edison's 1910 version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Yeah, Thomas Edison.

The monster's creation is really sort of gross, and simply, but creatively done. Once finished, the monster seems more obnoxious than anything else. Whiny, argumentative, nagging, petulant ... not exactly terrifying.

The ending doesn't make any sense either. But this is a thrill to watch for two reasons; because it's Thomas Edison's take on it, and because the visual aesthetic is a joy, whether you're a historian or a steampunk, horror, science fiction, or silent movie fan.

Music - Monsters!

Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast - There's A Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)
All right, it's only tangentially related, but it's so much fun to sing along to.

The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
... maybe I'm the only one who finds including this amusing. Probably. But damnit, I just can't resist a pun.

Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater
Another classic.

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

Bobby Pickett & The Cryptkickers - Monster Mash
I think I'm contractually required to include this.