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The Curse of Frankenstein

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The setup

A torch-waving mob storms a castle for Frankenstein's monster, but the green, bolt-necked man who answers insists they have the wrong house.

Community rating

5.0 / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Framed as a late-night TV airing of an old horror picture, the sketch sends host Hugh Laurie's head villager and a torch-carrying mob to a castle door, where Bill Hader's unmistakably green monster calmly redirects them across the moor. There they find Jason Sudeikis's Dracula, who hears their description of a tall green man with bolts in his neck and tells them that can only be Frankenstein's monster. Back at the first castle, the monster treats every accusation as a personal insult, passing off his bolts as an old childhood injury, complaining about name-calling and prejudice and presenting himself as a shoemaker and family man, until the embarrassed villagers apologize and he refuses to accept it.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 6

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I'm Dracula. See? Cape. Fangs. Widow's peak.

Oh, great. Thanks a lot. I almost forgot about that spinal injury I had when I was four years old.

Oh, great. Now it's a racial thing.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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