Was the Frankenstein Monster a victim of Acromegaly?

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Mongo	Was the Frankenstein Monster a victim of Acromegaly?	Lead	[-]
(06/05/08 7:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None When Wolf was examining the Frankenstein Monster in Son, he made reference to a Hyper Pituitary gland (Acromegaly) and declared that was the reason for the Monster's huge size. I always thought the Monster was a "giant" because he was made that way by Henry Frankenstein. Of course Wolf could have been wrong, but was he? After all Henry used normal sized body parts from human cadavers. Could the Cosmic rays have activated a dormant Acromegaly condition in an otherwise normal Pituitary gland? If this was the case, why didn't the Monster fall victim to Acromegaly like Rhondo Hatten and other sufferers of the disease?
todmichel		#1	[-]
(06/05/08 7:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The problem is that, in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, the Monster is slightly smallest than Basil Rathbone ! just watch the scene when Karloff put his hand on Wolf's shoulder. So, when Donnie Dunagan describe the Monster as a "giant", it seems rather strange, as his own father is even taller.
Detective Kemper		#2	[-]
(06/05/08 8:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I suppose acromegaly might account for the "considerable osteoderma in the frontal region." It might also account for why the monster started out as cadaverous in appearance and beefed up to his "enormous size." DK
Dr Borgo		#3	[-]
(06/05/08 10:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Maybe that is why he is so much more agile and limber in the first few movies and then became so stiff and slow in the later ones as the Acromegaly began to set in. Or maybe it was just the actors playing the part.
zogstar67		#4	[-]
(06/06/08 10:00 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	todmichel wrote: The problem is that, in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, the Monster is slightly smallest than Basil Rathbone ! just watch the scene when Karloff put his hand on Wolf's shoulder. So, when Donnie Dunagan describe the Monster as a "giant", it seems rather strange, as his own father is even taller. I just watched this last night. Perhaps the scene you mentioned was staged such that Karloff was standing on a slightly lower surface than Rathbone. Or just wasn't wearing his "Monster shoes" or something. I noticed specifically another lab scene where Karloff and Lugosi are seen head to toe and Karloff seems to tower over Lugosi who was 6' or so and taller than Karloff. I put this down to Karloff's boots and Lugosi's slouching, since they were standing on the same surface. "Synthetic Flesh!" Chris Herzog zogstar67@yahoo.com
Don Glut		#5	[-]
(06/10/08 6:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Also, there's that still from GHOST where Lugosi is standing beside Chaney ... but Bela is standing in a trench, probably to make Lon look taller. Yes, I always wondered about that line in SON. Could explain the Monster's high, sloping forehead and flat top.
Imhoteps Ashes		#6	[-]
(06/11/08 6:34 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I always thought the Monster was a "giant" because he was made that way by Henry Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein himself states he made the monster "eight feet" tall to simplify the complicated creation process. As fun as all this conjecture is, we're probably reading too much into it, and Peggy Webling, John Balderston, James Whale and so on, never proceeded past this first idea. This holds even more true for the sequels.
Don Glut		#7	[-]
(06/11/08 7:20 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Also, in the novel, Victor says he also went to slaughterhouses for his raw materials ... i.e., he incorporated animal parts into his creation. Of course, after repeatedly getting his photo in FAMOUS MONSTERS, the Monster started to suffer from Acker-megaly.
catmandu7		#8	[-]
(06/13/08 5:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I cant see where he could have acromegalia if he was made from corpses as the death of his "donors" would have killed the genes that cause this disease. Rathbones dialoque was just typical movie science talk which usually is there to sound impressive, but means nothing.
luisj40		#9	[-]
(06/16/08 12:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	todmichel wrote: The problem is that, in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, the Monster is slightly smallest than Basil Rathbone ! just watch the scene when Karloff put his hand on Wolf's shoulder. So, when Donnie Dunagan describe the Monster as a "giant", it seems rather strange, as his own father is even taller. Yes I brought up the issue of Karloff's Frankenstein looking too small next Basil Rathbone before but was ignored so glad to see someone else mentioning that when the young Frankenstein boy calls him a "Giant" it comes off a bit silly because the Monster is clearly not a giant in SOF. Now Glenn Strange's Frankenstein Monster did look like a giant but sadly he was used too little in the films he did. Luis
Mongo		#10	[-]
(06/16/08 7:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	luisj40 wrote: todmichel wrote: The problem is that, in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, the Monster is slightly smallest than Basil Rathbone ! just watch the scene when Karloff put his hand on Wolf's shoulder. So, when Donnie Dunagan describe the Monster as a "giant", it seems rather strange, as his own father is even taller. Yes I brought up the issue of Karloff's Frankenstein looking too small next Basil Rathbone before but was ignored so glad to see someone else mentioning that when the young Frankenstein boy calls him a "Giant" it comes off a bit silly because the Monster is clearly not a giant in SOF. Now Glenn Strange's Frankenstein Monster did look like a giant but sadly he was used too little in the films he did. Which is one reason why I don't think that Karloff would have made as threatening a "monster" as Strange did 8 or 9 years later in Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.

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