Movie Review
Gods and Monsters
by Crissa-Jean Chappell
"You have the most architectural skull," James Whale tells his gardener in Gods and Monsters. The square-shaped noggin calls to mind certain movie monsters whose heads were flat. Frankenstein's monster had such a skull. You could open it "like a tin of beef," according to Mr. Whale, the openly gay movie director who designed 1931’s horror classic. Two decades later, he still dreams about gods and monsters and the meager difference between them.