View Full Version : who's your favorite mad scientist?
barbra
03-13-2005, 03:01 AM
.
AUSTIN316426808
03-13-2005, 03:46 AM
Herbert West
zwoti
03-13-2005, 04:18 AM
Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
Herbert West
good choice
filmmaker2
03-13-2005, 06:44 AM
Dude, Dr. Pretorius, all the way.
He eats lunch in a crypt, and laughs about it!
Pennywise8
03-13-2005, 07:00 AM
Dr. Victor Frankenstein. He pretty much created or put a new meaning to "Mad Scientist".
The_Return
03-13-2005, 09:27 AM
Not sure if he'd count...but Dr. Anton Phibes
Hate_Breeder
03-13-2005, 10:17 AM
Yeah, i think i have to say herbert West as well. Jefferey Combs seems meant to play that character...
The_Return
03-13-2005, 10:46 AM
DAMN BLOCKBUSTER FOR NOT HAVING REANIMATOR:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
AUSTIN316426808
03-13-2005, 05:26 PM
Originally posted by Pennywise8
Dr. Victor Frankenstein. He pretty much created or put a new meaning to "Mad Scientist".
I wouldn't say he was a ''mad'' scientist. he was just trying to improve things.
ShankS
03-15-2005, 10:30 PM
that scientist/doctor in House on Haunted Hill remake.....*ach spit.... looks a bit of a loonie.
MichaelMyers
03-16-2005, 06:26 AM
Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
Herbert West
Ditto.
ClassicHorror
03-17-2005, 04:06 AM
I gotta go with Victor Frankenstein.
Herbert comes at a close second.
AUSTIN316426808
03-17-2005, 04:10 AM
Originally posted by ClassicHorror
I gotta go with Victor Frankenstein.
Herbert comes at a close second.
what do you think about this.....
Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
I wouldn't say he was a ''mad'' scientist. he was just trying to improve things.
ClassicHorror
03-17-2005, 04:13 AM
Hmmm, well he wasn't mad so I will take him off my list.
I'll agree with you saying he was just trying to improve things.
immortalem
03-19-2005, 06:07 AM
My favorite mad scientist is Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
The_Return
03-19-2005, 08:44 AM
Originally posted by ShankS
that scientist/doctor in House on Haunted Hill remake.....*ach spit.... looks a bit of a loonie.
Played by the same guy as Herbert West, strangly enough.
And good choice, btw!
bloody_ribcut
03-19-2005, 08:52 PM
beakman
ClassicHorror
03-21-2005, 03:56 AM
Originally posted by The_Return
Played by the same guy as Herbert West, strangly enough.
And good choice, btw!
Jeffrey Combs is Herbert West, are you sure thats Jeffrey Combs in HOH Remake, because I did not see him in it.
I'll have to look at my DVD and find out.....
zwoti
03-21-2005, 05:48 AM
Originally posted by ClassicHorror
Jeffrey Combs is Herbert West, are you sure thats Jeffrey Combs in HOH Remake, because I did not see him in it.
I'll have to look at my DVD and find out.....
yep, he plays the doctor who's house it was.....seen mostly in the flashback
ClassicHorror
03-22-2005, 03:15 AM
thats a cool little tribute.
zwoti
03-22-2005, 05:33 AM
Originally posted by ClassicHorror
thats a cool little tribute.
you talking to me? :cool:
juanhacko
03-22-2005, 06:09 AM
Elsa Lanchester--In an episode of "The Man From Uncle"
taylorsmommy
03-22-2005, 07:01 AM
Originally posted by juanhacko
Elsa Lanchester--In an episode of "The Man From Uncle"
Oh, there's a blast from the past!! I remember that show - I was in love with David McCallum.
juanhacko
03-22-2005, 07:09 AM
Originally posted by taylorsmommy
Oh, there's a blast from the past!! I remember that show - I was in love with David McCallum.
You know David McCallum is still on TV. NCIS at 7:00 CST tonight--CBS
Forensic Pathologist "Ducky"--he's a little older now.
taylorsmommy
03-22-2005, 07:32 AM
Originally posted by juanhacko
You know David McCallum is still on TV. NCIS at 7:00 CST tonight--CBS
Forensic Pathologist "Ducky"--he's a little older now.
Yup, I watch it every week. How can you go wrong with 3 good looking men in the cast?!
ClassicHorror
03-23-2005, 03:45 AM
I also like the mad scientist from Maniac one of the first slasher/exploitation films.
freddy69
03-30-2005, 01:52 PM
i would have to say frankenstien
ClassicHorror
03-31-2005, 04:42 AM
ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hollywoodgothiq
04-03-2005, 10:13 AM
Originally posted by immortalem
My favorite mad scientist is Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
Hate to get all pedantic on you, but Victor Frankenstein (in the book at least) is not a doctor, and he's barely a scientist -- he's more of an alchemst. Not a mad scientist at all, more a caricature of a Romantic Hero -- overly sensitive, prone to hysterics, not mad or obsessed with science at all.
Now, Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive in the Universal horror films) does fit the mold of the mad scientist a bit better.
The Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the Hammer films (played by Peter Cushing) is also an arguable candidate for being a mad scientist, although his madness seems to consist mostly of a blindness to the horror he creates while in pursuit of his ideal.
ClassicHorror
04-06-2005, 03:52 AM
Someone who brings back dead body parts is a scientist, and he was pretty mad, afterall he did collect dead body parts, no one in their right minds would do that.
Just my opinion.
hollywoodgothiq
04-06-2005, 09:30 AM
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
04-07-2005, 07:35 AM
That guy in "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park".....:p
ClassicHorror
04-08-2005, 03:21 AM
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
04-08-2005, 06:59 AM
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
04-08-2005, 07:21 AM
My favourite has to be........me!!!
Ash
urgeok
04-08-2005, 07:34 AM
both the Steve Martin and David Warner's characters in The Man With Two Brains ..
barbra
04-09-2005, 06:27 PM
Seth Brundle was my favorite as a child
dodge50
04-18-2005, 04:20 PM
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
04-19-2005, 08:14 AM
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.
barbra
04-19-2005, 07:33 PM
dr jeckle is cool
slasherman
04-20-2005, 05:35 AM
Originally posted by barbra
dr jeckle is cool
what about Mr Hyde ? :)
http://www.jedisparadise.co.uk/childrenstv/Dexters_Lab/Dexters_Lab.jpg
barbra
04-21-2005, 08:51 AM
Dexter wasn't mad unless Deedee was in his lab.:)
slasherman
04-21-2005, 04:55 PM
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/mirakleszd.jpg
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/marchhydeszd.jpg
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/tracyhydeszd.jpg
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/roburszd.jpg
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/eviloffrankensteinszd.jpg
http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/karlofflivesszd.jpg
dodge50
04-22-2005, 06:39 AM
Originally posted by 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.
Good point, but he did say in the first film I think, that he used his knowledge of music to create the voice box he talked through. Would that make him a scientist or an inventor? and does it matter.
Take Robert Stroud, the infamous "Bird Man Of Alcatraz" He discovered many cures for bird illnesses in his cell at levenworth state pen, and he didn't even do science 101 (if they had that then) at school. Yet he cured his birds with his medicine, that some say would make him a doctor, and as he discovered the cures in the first place that would make him a scientist surely. So why are people so obcessed with a title. I'm not pointing the finger at you hollywoodgothiq, I'm just wondering. Still if I had to have an operation I would demand a qualified doctor, and not someone who cuts up cadavers for fun :eek: So I guess I am just as obcessed as everyone else :D