DISCLAIMER: This video is not sponsored. It was made strictly as a passion project for non-profit purposes, as I do not own the rights to the music, and the video contains some mild R-rated imagery.

As this is a special occasion both for this time of year (and me having just surpassed the 100-subscriber mark), I decided to get into the Halloween spirit by jumping aboard the bandwagon of animatics made to this musical based on Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein”, since it is one of my favorite pieces of classic literature, and since it is a musical that seems to be garnering as much of a following as the one for the “Jekyll and Hyde” musical.

While other YouTube creators have made animatics to the songs like “Birth to My Creation”, “Amen”, and “Why”, I decided to go for one of my favorite songs that nobody seems to have considered for an animatic. And wouldn’t you know it, the title of the song is also the subtitle given to the novel by Mary Shelly herself (although of course, in this context, the idea of “Modern Prometheus” reflects Victor Frankenstein’s inflated ego in pursuit of his endeavors and efforts to claim the role of God).

This song is set to the part of the story where Victor is heeding the monster’s demand to make him a bride. However, there are two major differences that set this rendition apart from the original.

First of all, in the original, Victor assembles the bride from multiple parts of corpses, but then dismembers and disposes it before it can come into fruition, out of panic for potential consequences. In this version, Victor is attempting to revive the corpse of the recently-deceased house servant, Justine Moritz (after silently witnessing her execution for a murder HE knew was committed by the monster)! And this time, he actually sees it through to the end, being driven once again by the dangerous levels of fanaticism that consumed him in his first endeavor!

Secondly, the monster originally murders Victor’s unsuspecting best friend, Henry Clerval, out of revenge for his demand being denied. Here, he comes upon Clerval discovering the revival and threatening to expose it, and instinctually kills him right in front of Victor’s eyes, leaving no doubt in Victor’s mind that he is truly evil!


Song Used:
“The Modern Prometheus” from ‘Frankenstein: A New Musical’. Performed by Hunter Foster, Jim Stanek, and Steve Blanchard. Property of Ghostlight Records.

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