Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

Much of FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER'S MONSTER, FRANKENSTEIN is a highly theatrical 32-minute parody of old movies as well as of pet projects of kids attempting to understand the lives of their more famous parents. In a play-within-a play, actor and producer David Harbour (Stranger Things) appears as his fictionalized self, his fictional father, and also the Frankenstein monster that the father created in a kitschy televised play recreating the Frankenstein story. Scenery-chewing in the play is deliberately rampant as Harbour, Alfred Molina, Kate Berlant, and Alex Ozerov let loose in an attempt at comic abandon. The acting-centered twist is that Harbour senior had hired a young movie idol he despised (Ozerov) to play his assistant. The assistant must pose as Dr. Frankenstein to help get funding while the real Dr. F. poses as the monster he probably killed. Through interviews with Harbour's fictional father's contemporaries (Michael Lerner and Mary Woronov), research into archives, the findings of a hired forensic accountant, and a review of his dad's extensive work, the son draws the conclusion that his father was, in fact, a monster -- overbearing, jealous, self centered, womanizing, and unfaithful.