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...FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by BRIAN W. ALDISS 212 pages. Random House...
...hero is Texan Joe Bodenland, who, in a variation on H.G. Wells' Time Machine, adventurously drives his car smack into the flux and arrives in 1816 at the edge of Lake Geneva. Joe stumbles upon a villa containing Byron, Shelley and Mary Shelley, who is writing Frankenstein. His subsequent relationship with Mary is dominated by the presence of Dr. Frankenstein and friends, who are quite as "real" as Mary, their creator. Joe comes to see Frankenstein's pursuit of pure scientific truth without social responsibility as the root of modern technological society, where "the head had triumphed over...
...London Wax Museum is located at 179 Tremont St. in Boston. Who says the Red Sox is the only culture you can get at Bean Town. This place has 38 different waxen scenes, and all of them should have been candles. No figurine--except for maybe Frankenstein's--looks like anybody in particular. Great fun for the whole family, especially if the family is stoned out of their minds...
...Frankenstein revamped, of course, but the signals seem to have gone wrong somewhere. Clearly, Hodges intended a caution against science that can mistake mind warping for mind mending. Despite all the patent disapproval, though, the operation still seems feasible, the only alternative to Benson's previous condition. The unresolved conflict lends the film a rather archaic tone, like those old horror movies that ended in the smoldering ashes of some laboratory, where a dim but wise policeman would shake his head and say, "Man wasn't ready for such knowledge...
ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN Carries only the master's name. It is signed by his epigone, Paul Morrissey, who was responsible also for Heat, Trash and Flesh. The movie features the usual Morrissey crew: harpies, fag hags, neuters and no-talents clutter up the screen and pop out of it in 3D, which is two more dimensions than they would provide without technological assistance. The prevailing notion is a retooling of Mary Shelley, en cumbered with dismal sex and heaping portions of grue. Limbs, entrails and corpses come whizzing over the heads of the audience, along with various...