who's your favorite mad scientist?

[hollywoodgothiq]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
Someone who brings back dead body parts is a scientist...

Actually, no. If we accept this definition, then any sorcerer or magician who raises the dead is a "scientist."

and he was pretty mad, afterall he did collect dead body parts, no one in their right minds would do that.

Again no, otherwise any doctor or professor who studies anatomical specimens is "mad."

My point about Victor Frankenstein (in the novel as opposed to film adaptations) is that there is little if any science in the book. The character simply does not conform to the archetype of the "mad scientist."

By the way, my own personal favorite mad scientist is Dr. Browning (played by Vincent Price) in SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN. He's a demented idealist who thinks he's working for the salvation of mankind, but his work yields horrific results

[slasherman]

That guy in "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park".....:p

[ClassicHorror]

Originally posted by hollywoodgothiq
Actually, no. If we accept this definition, then any sorcerer or magician who raises the dead is a "scientist."




Again no, otherwise any doctor or professor who studies anatomical specimens is "mad."

My point about Victor Frankenstein (in the novel as opposed to film adaptations) is that there is little if any science in the book. The character simply does not conform to the archetype of the "mad scientist."

By the way, my own personal favorite mad scientist is Dr. Browning (played by Vincent Price) in SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN. He's a demented idealist who thinks he's working for the salvation of mankind, but his work yields horrific results

You could tell he was mad, just by the way he talked, and he was a scientist because he had a laboratory, and he brought it back to life with science.

brb later to talk......

[hollywoodgothiq]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
You could tell he was mad, just by the way he talked, and he was a scientist because he had a laboratory, and he brought it back to life with science.

You seem to be thinking of the films rather than the book. In the book there is no lab (I believe the phrase used is "workshop of filthy creation") and barely any science (Victor never tells us how he created life).

[Preacher]

My favourite has to be........me!!!

Ash

[urgeok]

both the Steve Martin and David Warner's characters in The Man With Two Brains ..

[barbra]

Seth Brundle was my favorite as a child

[ADOM]

Dr. Eric Vornoff

[dodge50]

Originally posted by The_Return
Not sure if he'd count...but Dr. Anton Phibes

Good choice. An organ playing deformed mad Dr who killed lots of people in some really ingenius ways, and he made talking through a voice box fashionable before Steven Hawking had a fucking PHD to his name.

BTW have you seen Dr Phibes rises from the grave?

[hollywoodgothiq]

One should point out that Anton Phibes is a mad doctor but not, strictly speaking, a mad scientist. His doctorate is in music and/or theology, not science.