Karloff

Cody’s handsome Creature was inspired less by Boris Karloff and more by “having grown up madly in love with ‘Edward Scissorhands,’” specifically Johnny Depp’s loner hero.

“������ I’m doing may be a little bit more Karloff than Carrey,” he says.

She called it “a witty ghoul story, a grandson of ‘Frankenstein’ that plays off the conventions of recent teen-age horror movies while paying homage to the classic starring Boris Karloff.”

As Lugosi stews and weighs his options, a workaday character actor named Boris Karloff sees the dramatic possibilities of the Monster, the pathos of a stitched-together undead man not made for this world.

The new documentary “Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster” remembers the English actor best known for his roles in such classic horror films as “Frankenstein” and “The Mummy.”