Boris Karloff The Man Behind the Monster (2021)

Beginning just before his debut as Frankensteins creation this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified Karloffs films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century among them Guillermo Del Toro Ron Perlman Roger Corman and John Landis all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes