Young Frankenstein

Directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder, the film opens at an American medical school. Frederick Frankenstein is a doctor who lectures and goes to great lengths to distance himself from his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, even pronouncing his surname as "Fronkensteen." Any mention of his grandfather makes him uncomfortable. When he inherits the family castle in Transylvania, he travels to Europe to inspect the property. At the train station he is greeted by Igor, a hunchbacked servant with bulging eyes whose grandfather also worked for the family. Frederick just wants to get the formalities over with and return home as soon as possible, but the weight of his lineage begins to surface at every turn.