What is Young Frankenstein / High Anxiety about?

Name: Young Frankenstein / High Anxiety
Genre: Comedy

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 1974, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Director Mel Brooks’ hilariously abby-normal homage to 1930’s monster movies on American audiences – one of the strangest, funniest, most brilliantly conceived comedies since the heyday of the Marx Bros. Gene Wilder stars as Dr. Frankenstein struggling to breathe life into tap-dancing monster Peter Boyle, with demented help from hunchback assistant Marty Feldman, lusty Teri Garr, neurotic girlfriend Madeline Kahn and Frau Blucher herself, Cloris Leachman. HIGH ANXIETY, 1977, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Director Mel Brooks spoofs Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND, but there are countless other references as well, including nods to NORTH BY NORTHWEST, VERTIGO, THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and more. Brooks stars as Dr. Richard Thorndyke, the newly-arrived administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute, suddenly beset by all manner of madmen and mayhem.

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What is Young Frankenstein / High Anxiety about?: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 1974, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Director Mel Brooks’ hilariously abby-normal homage to 1930’s monster movies on American audiences – one of the strangest, funniest, most brilliantly conceived comedies since the heyday of the Marx Bros. Gene Wilder stars as Dr. Frankenstein struggling to breathe life into tap-dancing monster Peter Boyle, with demented help from hunchback assistant Marty Feldman, lusty Teri Garr, neurotic girlfriend Madeline Kahn and Frau Blucher herself, Cloris Leachman.
HIGH ANXIETY, 1977, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Director Mel Brooks spoofs Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND, but there are countless other references as well, including nods to NORTH BY NORTHWEST, VERTIGO, THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and more. Brooks stars as Dr. Richard Thorndyke, the newly-arrived administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute, suddenly beset by all manner of madmen and mayhem.