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Film and pop culture
- Film, television and literature
The homunculus' likely first appearance in film was the
six-part 1916 German serial Homunculus.
"Homunculus," a fictitious rapper, is mentioned in the
NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
In the classic horror film Bride of Frankenstein, Dr.
Frankenstein's old teacher, Dr. Praetorius, shows him
his own creations, a series of miniature humanoids kept
in specimen jars, including a bishop, a king, a queen, a
ballerina, a mermaid, and a devil. These are clearly
intended to be homunculi, based on those creatures
described by Emil Besetzny's Sphinx, as translated and
presented in Franz Hartmann's Life of Paracelsus.
Frankenstein's monster is technically the same type of
Homunculi as Lillith from Animamundi.
Homunculus - Sylvia Plath's poem Cut
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