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Frankenstein

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Aug 1, 2013

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The 9th podcast in the Top 100 Project is James Whale’s Frankenstein. Does the horror hold up? Is Boris Karloff the original zombie? Did the 70-minute film find a way to bore Bev? And what classic horror film do we agree is more deserving to be an AFIer than Frankenstein? All that and oodles more in a fun l’il 28-minute package!

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Aug 1, 2013

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Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!

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