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The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein, which I can watch forever.

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.