Frankenstein never finished his she-monster out of fear that his corpse-stitched creations would get it on and beget a new race of unnatural superhumans.
Delambre emerges from the telepod with a fly's head and arm -- yet he still managed to retain his human mind. At least for a while.
Bela Lugosi did star in 1932's "The Island of Lost Souls," but not as the doctor. That role went to Charles Laughton.
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The Medusa Transducer could turn human beings into nude statues, and then back into humans again. Sadly, this device remains a mystery as the only known prototype left the Earth at the end of the film.
Cubert J. Farnsworth indeed carries on his father's exact genetic legacy, though Igner is in fact Hubert's non-clone offspring.
Bela all the way, baby.
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Rotwang was quite the mad science trendsetter with his gloved robotic hand -- a flourish later employed by Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
Played for comedic effect by actor Peter Sellers, Strangelove suffers from alien hand syndrome.
It was in fact wonderflonium.
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Tim's comic is titled "The Bear," and indeed that's the mutant, mad science creature in question.
Membrane received infinite socks instead of uranium-238 for Christmas one year, fueling a deep desire to destroy Santa.
Walter's cow Gene generally hangs out in the lab, occasionally watching episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants."
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Oscar-nominated James Cromwell played the sadistic ex-Nazi scientist. His son, John Cromwell, played a younger version of the character in flashbacks.
While the invention appears to make people or objects vanish, it actually clones them via some form of matter duplication.
Ghostbuster Egon Spengler invented the proton pack. Tyrell and Brown are responsible for human replicants and time-traveling Deloreans, respectively.
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Yes, neither a video game character nor an Italian horror film character, Forrester tormented humans and robots alike with cheesy movies on "Mystery Science Theater 3000."
Other Skuggs creations included a man with a sock puppet for a head and Ortiz the Dog Boy, played by an uncredited Keanu Reeves.
After experimenting on himself in an attempt to regenerate a missing arm, Curt Connors transformed into a rampaging lizard -- but at least he kept the lab coat on.
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Played by actor Jeffrey Combs in several movies, the corpse-meddling scientists originates in Lovecraft's 1922 tale "Herbert West—Reanimator."
While Heston did go on to play Mengele in the 2003 film "Rua Alguem 5555: My Father," Peck did the honors in "The Boys From Brazil," and Olivier played the aging Nazi hunter in search of him.