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For a monster mash at home, the best amd worst of the Frankenstein movies. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19941107
Author:Widner, Ellis

    The story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his man-made being, one of the movies' most enduring stories, began as a dream. 
    Writer Mary Shelley was traveling with her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Lord Byron and Dr. John Polidori, who would later write the novella, ``The Vampyre.'' It was 1816; the quartet was staying at Lake Geneva, Switzerland. 
    They got together one night to share gothic tales of the supernatural. Later that evening, Mary Shelley dreamed about a scientist bringing a corpse to life. 
    That dream was the inspiration for the novel, ...

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