EDITOR’S NOTE: Young Frankenstein was on USA Up All Night on October 31, 1992.

I was two years old, and my parents went to see this on a date together, and I remember being sad that I couldn’t go. Even at that young age, I loved monsters. As I’ve grown up, this movie has become a regular part of my family. We would often talk about it and watch it every time it was on TV. When I got my parents a DVD player, this was one of the movies I bought with it for them.

Directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote it with star Gene Wilder, this is the kind of movie that requires little introduction. But wow, you have Wilder, Peter Boyle as the monster, a perfect Marty Feldman as Igor, Cloris Leachman in charge of the castle, Teri Garr, Madelaine Kahn and Brooks himself. It’s, well, perfect.

Brooks said, “I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee, and he said, ‘I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein.” I said, “Not another! We’ve had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law. We don’t need another Frankenstein.” His idea was straightforward: “What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever? “He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, “That’s funny.””

It’s great because even if you don’t know the monster movies to the level that geeks like me do, it’s still funny. But if you do, there’s so much more.