Perhaps thats because Johann was quite into the occult sciences scene that was becoming a rage during that era.
She even specifically believed in the process of reincarnation, an idea that the film dabbles in.
Few actors of that era had it worse than Boris Karloff.
His demanding roles in such movies undoubtedly inspired him to become a founding member of theScreen Actors Guild.
For instance, Whale was initially approached to direct the first sequel toDracula, 1936sDraculas Daughter.
Said drafts were consistently turned down by rating board members who seemed especially horrified by their content.
Interestingly the final films implied lesbian themes were still pretty risque for its time.
Director Rowland Lee and screenwriter William Cooper argued about the movies script up until the time of shooting.
Actually they continued to argue about the script beyond that.
There was one notable beneficiary of this arrangement: Bela Lugosi.
So Lee used the constant rewrites as a chance to give Lugosian expanded roleand a bigger payday.
I suppose the visual proved to be too good to pass up.
In that movie, we see Lugosi portray Frankensteins Monster as a lumbering beast with his arms awkwardly outstretched.
Reportedly, Lugosi is walking like that because theoriginal scriptcalled for the monster to be blind at that point.
Abbot and Costellos almost meme-like response to Lugosis movement accelerated its place in pop culture five years later.
However,The Mummys Handis seemingly set sometime around the films release year of 1940.
ActuallyYoung Frankensteinforever confused many of our memories of those movies thanks to its take on the character Igor.
InYoung Frankenstein, Igor is a hunchbacked assistant who helps Dr. Frankenstein create the monster.
