United States | 1974 | Mel Brooks

Join us for Halloween at the Cinematheque! Mel Brooks’ “scariest comedy of all time” is as funny as a horror parody gets. The comical genius Gene Wilder stars as a young neurosurgeon who inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind. 106 min.