More - Stephen Sommers Quotes

No one is going to think going into this movie that they are going to come out loving Frankenstein, and not in a cheap of cheesy way at all - he's really an angry, vicious guy - a beast. But when you think of the originals, they were scary melodramas. The characters were so deep. I always felt as badly for Frankenstein as I did for his victims because, like Lenny in Steinbeck's 'Mice and Men,' he's a man-child. I've always found that fascinating.

Stephen Sommers

 

Frankenstein's monster is so iconographic, so my creature designers spent many, many months designing him. I said, 'OK, he has to have a flat head, blots on his neck and Doc Martens on his feet, but other that - we can play with him'.

Stephen Sommers

 

Munich.

Stephen Sommers

 

North West Frontier.

Stephen Sommers

 

Everybody knows that you can't see Dracula's reflection in a mirror, but nobody has ever asked, 'Why?' That's a good question and I answer it. I also thought, 'You know, Dracula is like the father of all vampires and you can kill vampires with a stake in the heart. But Dracula has to be more complicated than that. No one knows how to kill Dracula'.

Stephen Sommers

 Reflection

I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?

Stephen Sommers

 American Director

A Night at the Museum.

Stephen Sommers

 Night

I hope in my career I get to do every kind of movie. When I did Huck Finn, I got all those Disney kid scripts. When I did Jungle Book, then I got all the animal scripts. Now I do a couple Mummy movies and it's like, 'Oh, he does monsters.

Stephen Sommers

 

The key to humor in a horror film is that it has to be organic. It has to be organic to the situation.... if you know you're doing anything to get a laugh, or anything to scare people - that's great. But to try to get people to do both - to try to get people to scream in horror, and a moment later burst out laughing - I think that's a neater trick.

Stephen Sommers

 

I think Frankenstein and The Mummy were my favorites. The Mummy was the only one that really scared the hell out of me. I loved Frankenstein as a kid, but I always felt sorry for him. I liked Dracula a lot, but it wasn't one of my favorites. I even liked The Wolfman a little better than Dracula. Dracula was too remote for me, or something.

Stephen Sommers

 Hell