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Afterlives of Dracula Part 1: Did Dracula’s Guest Inspire Young Frankenstein’s Hans Delbrück Brain Jar?
A joke that lasts a second can still leave a long shadow. In Young Frankenstein (1974), Igor enters the laboratory’s brain depository and chooses the wrong specimen. The correct jar is labelled `HANS DELBRUCK, SCIENTIST AND SAINT`. It is a beautifully deadpan detail: grand, pompous, oddly specific, and quickly replaced by the infamous “Abby Normal” brain. The name is easy to miss. Yet it has an intriguing literary echo. A Herr Delbrück appears in “Dracula’s Guest”, the posthu
Ross McGill
Sep 78 min read
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