Frankenstein: The College Years

Frankenstein: The College Years (1991)

When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous with Lipp's inventions...

Date of release
1991-10-28
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Director
Tom Shadyac

Casting

Interesting facts

Frankenstein: The College Years is a 1991 American television film directed by Tom Shadyac. It debuted on American television on Fox on Monday, October 28, 1991.

Background

The 6' 11' Vincent Hammond was cast as Frankenstein because he was with the group doing special effects for the film, and his tall and imposing appearance was noticed; he had previously played an alien in 1990s' Predator 2 the same way.

The film was Tom Shadyac's directorial debut. Shadyac went on to direct Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and many other successful comedy movies. The screenplay was by Bryant Christ and John Trevor Wolff, and is the only IMDb writing credit for either of them.

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