who's your favorite mad scientist?
 

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Herbert West

good choice

Dude, Dr. Pretorius, all the way.

He eats lunch in a crypt, and laughs about it!

Dr. Victor Frankenstein. He pretty much created or put a new meaning to "Mad Scientist".

Not sure if he'd count...but Dr. Anton Phibes

Yeah, i think i have to say herbert West as well. Jefferey Combs seems meant to play that character...

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I wouldn't say he was a ''mad'' scientist. he was just trying to improve things.

that scientist/doctor in House on Haunted Hill remake.....*ach spit.... looks a bit of a loonie.

Ditto.

I gotta go with Victor Frankenstein.

Herbert comes at a close second.

what do you think about this.....

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.

My favorite mad scientist is Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Played by the same guy as Herbert West, strangly enough.

And good choice, btw!

beakman

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

thats a cool little tribute.

you talking to me? :cool:

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.

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?!

I also like the mad scientist from Maniac one of the first slasher/exploitation films.

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i would have to say frankenstien

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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.

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.

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

That guy in "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park".....:p

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......

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).

My favourite has to be........me!!!

Ash

both the Steve Martin and David Warner's characters in The Man With Two Brains ..

Seth Brundle was my favorite as a child

Dr. Eric Vornoff

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?

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.