EXCLUSIVE! Watch A Clip From DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY: TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN - From The Creators Of ROOM 237

James Marsh, Editor, Asia; Hong Kong, China (@Marshy00)

April 20 2015, 10:38 PM

Fans of Room 237, Rodney Ascher's fantastic documentary on the hidden conspiracy theories that may or may not lurk beneath the surface of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, will no doubt already be chomping at the bit to get a look at his follow-up, The Nightmare, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year.

Well we are going one better than that. Ascher and regular producing partner Tim Kirk have teamed up again for another oddball approach to the documentary medium, Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein.

An obscure 1970s adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Terror of Frankenstein is a real movie, starring Leon Vitali (Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut) and something of an unchampioned classic in Euro-horror circles. What Ascher, Kirk, and Tim's cousin Jay have done, is put Vitali in a room with actors Zack Norman and Clu Gulager, given them microphones and recorded what promises to be one of the most bizarre audio commentaries of all time - perhaps even more terrifying than anything depicted in the film itself.

"I'm especially fascinated by experimenting with format, remixes, and genre-blurring," says Ascher, "so I loved the idea of an agonizing horror/drama (with maybe a few laughs) inserted into a commentary track. When I met Leon Vitali at The Stanley Film Festival in Colorado, the choice of Frankenstein films to start from got a whole lot easier."

Kirk also had a yearning to tackle this particular subject matter. "When my daughter was born, I knew I wanted to make films that created a new way of looking at the greatest horror films about fatherhood. Having just completed a film about THE SHINING, it was time to tackle #2. FRANKENSTEIN."

Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein will debut at this year's Stanley Film Festival on 1 May, but the guys have a Kickstarter campaign set up to help them add a final layer of spit & polish to the project and ensure it gets to the hotel on time! Click the link right here and go support them in this decidedly deranged enterprise.

The team is being deliberately vague about what exactly is unearthed during their encounters and recordings with Vitali and Co, but just to give you a little taste of just how completely off the frickin' chain things might get, here is an exclusive clip from the film for your viewing pleasure. Consider this fair warning. Things are about to get dark.