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The film's story is a parody of the horror film genre, primarily, of course, of the various film versions of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The grandson (Wilder) of the famous mad scientistA mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, either villainous, or benignly unconscious and scatter-brained. Whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, the mad scientists are usually working with some utterly fictional technology in order, who insists that his name is pronounced "Fronkensteen", is a respected lecturer at an American medical school and is more or less happily engaged (to Kahn). While on a trip to his ancestral home to attend to his family's estate, he is inspired by the household servants (Leachman and Feldman) and his grandfather's journals to pick up where his grandfather left off. Wackiness ensues.

The success of Young Frankenstein led to another horror spoof -- 1974's Vampira starring David NivenDavid Niven born James David Graham Nevins ( March 1, 1909 July 29, 1983), was an English actor who achieved the unusual distinction of success in both the British and the Hollywood film industry. He was born in London, England, the son of William Edward and Teresa GravesTeresa Graves is an American actress and singer, born on January 10, 1948 in Houston, Texas. She began her career singing in a band called the Doodletown Pipers. She soon turned to acting. She was a regular in the two variety flops " Our Place" ( 1967) an -- being renamed Old Dracula for North American release.