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Halloween is the best time of the year. Many people think this is because you get to dress up, eat candy and fill your house with decorative gourds, but they are wrong.

Halloween is the best time of the year because Halloween is the time that I get to watch the one and only Frankenstein movie.

What is the one and only Frankenstein movie, you ask? Why, it's the only movie truly fit for a spooky and crisp October night! I can't believe it's doesn't yet top the list of Halloween classics like Halloweentownand Beetlejuice.

The movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's timeless classic starts with a man named Dr. Bruce Banner meeting with General "Thunderbolt" Ross at a university in Virginia, who has discovered a way to make humans immune to gamma radiation. The experiment is done on Bruce Banner, but it fails, causing him to transform into a big green monster (Frankenstein!!) for a brief period of time whenever his heart rate rises above 200.

Is this feeling like the perfect Halloween-time movie yet?

Bruce Banner then escapes and becomes a fugitive from the General (who we now know is Dr. Frankenstein, obviously!!) and goes to work in a bottling factory in Brazil. The scene must've been deleted in post, but I bet he used a dog sled to get there like Mary Shelley would've wanted.

Anybody thinking it's Oct. 31 yet?

The exciting tale from your 8th grade literature class continues being brought to life when SWAT-team leader Emil Blonsky, who envies Bruce Banner's power as the monster, captures Bruce and gives the order to become a monster himself using Bruce's mutated blood. Upon doing this, Blonsky turns into a creature of the same size (a female companion for the lonely and miserable Frankenstein's monster??) but is driven mad and must be stopped by Bruce Banner (like when Frankenstein decides to destroy the female companion because he worries they'll bring destruction to humanity??)

Pop this one into a DVD player around Halloween-time and feel the same nostalgia you feel watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

And though I feel it was done masterfully, this incredible film certainly did take some artistic license. Like the fact that they changed all of the character names, and locations, and the time period and general beginning middle and end. And how Marvel superhero Tony Stark comes up to him at the end and says they're assembling a team, presumably of other Marvel superheroes that they will one day self-title the Avengers.

Full disclosure, I'm just assuming this movie is Frankenstein because I lost the correct DVD cover.

But, Young Frankenstein also took some artistic license,and everyone loved that movie, so I don't mind that they did the same with Shelley's classic!

I hope this has inspired you all to add this film to your most beloved Halloween traditions in the years to come.

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