Monstershow (1996)

We see a small traveling show performing in various outdoor Ohio locals actors do scenes from Frankenstein Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde Myers intercuts clips from old movies including versions of the same three stories as well as footage from his own effort a Frankenstein begun when he was 12 All of these elements are deftly combined to interpenetrate rather than collide the bankers voice often continues when the old movies begin so that he seems to be narrating them as well The result is that present and past the personal and the public Hollywood and amateur theater all seem to meld Myers sensuous grainy black and white cinematography is the key to the films tone and meaning Fred Camper Chicago Reader