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Recent Examples of FrankensteinWind through a series of rooms starring some of Hollywood's most iconic monsters, including Dracula, The Mummy and Frankenstein's monster.—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025 This doesn’t mean that a film like The Curse of Frankenstein doesn’t say anything about Britain.—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 Although not technically a Halloween film, Hotel Transylvania features tons of our favorite supernatural myths (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc;) in a way that’s fun and approachable for kids to enjoy.—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025 The live presentation gave a preview of the Netflix’s upcoming programming including Wednesday Season 2, Stranger Things Season 5 and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Frankenstein
The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle.
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Adam Fox,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back.
Centered on Zhong Kui, the iconic demon-quelling deity of Chinese folklore, the family-friendly adventure follows a young human girl named Chujiu who accidentally enters the underworld.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
1 June 2026
In many ways, Rue’s fate had long been sealed, thanks to both her own personal demons and her tense spot between DEA agents and the crime boss Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).
The fantasy comedy twisted the types of fairy tales that Disney was known for with cruder and sillier humor and centered a grumpy ogre journeying to save a princess.
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Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
In recent weeks, social media users, especially on X, have been noticing increasing references to goblins, along with other fantasy creatures such as gremlins, ogres and trolls in ChatGPT’s answers to user queries.
The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.
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Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.
Three species of bats inhabit the site, and supernatural events—including the appearance of the gamekeeper’s ghost and the wail of a banshee—have been reported.
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Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2026
Weaving, even more than before, makes Grace an ingénue gone banshee.