Kathryn Newton

Cole Sprouse

Liza Soberano

Henry Eikenberry

Joe Chrest

Carla Gugino

Joey Harris

Bryce Romero

Jenna Davis

Joshua Montes

Trina LaFargue

Paola Andino

Jennifer Pierce Mathus

Luke Sexton

Chris Greening

Mae Anglim

Ayla Miller

Jailyn Rae

Ashton Leigh

Charlie Talbert

Ray Gaspard

Geraldine Singer

Shane Partlow

Jesse Reeks

Destiny Jones

Johnny Ballance

Donna DuPlantier

Sylvia Grace Crim

Walker Babington

Ritchie Montgomery

Sarah Fisher

Summer Selby

Marcello Maurio

Brad Miller

Julia Belanova

Wendy Miklovic

April Dupré

Diablo Cody

Jeffrey Lampert

Zelda Williams

Mason Novick

Chelsea Bruland

Katalea Ford

Alessandro Chimento

Jonny Bullard

Vinny Alfano

Jake Valentine

Nicolas DiNizio

Jacques Stroweis

Tatum Beck

Adie Kaplan

Lewis Goldstein

Jessica Taylor

Wen-Hsuan Tseng

Regina Jiganti

Scott Winston

Amanda Bradley

Natalie Shea Rose

Richard Friedlander

Yorick Sedee

Allan Zaleski

Max Patrucco

William Spataro

Brian Waltsak

Ronnie van der Veer

Gerardo Gabriel Garcia

Brian Houlihan

Juliene Joyner

Preston Schrag

Shwee Chou

Michael Wharton

Jared Swidzinski

Bryan Marchese

Annika Epker

Georgianna Paz

Tory Ducote

Bennett Kerr

Matt Alavi

Silas Borelly

Lee Pierce

Joshua Walker

Carmen Soriano

Amelia Chen Miley

Allen Parks

Steffan Pitzel

Jasmine Gutierrez

Nate Wasson

Marie Boensch

Serena Forghieri

Zachery Scherer

Emma Villere

Jen Wasson

Jeffrey Penman

Anthony Rossi III

Michelle C. Harmon

Garrett McElver

Mark Worthington

David Thornsberry

Jack Bigelow

Elizabeth Ellson

Michelle Belfield

Andrew W. Bofinger

Meagan McLaughlin

Shane LeCocq

Paula Huidobro

Brad Turner

Isabella Summers

Robert C. Bigelow

Nancy Nayor

Nicholas Kmet

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Horror

Romance

Lisa Frankenstein

Focus Features

MXN Entertainment

Lollipop Woods

United States of America

English

high school

cemetery

dark comedy

coming of age

murder

teenage girl

female protagonist

corpse

body mutilation

death of mother

reanimated corpse

woman director

1980s

adoring

inspired by novel or book

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/lisa-frankenstein-review-theres-no-middle-ground/

"Lisa Frankenstein marks my first disappointment of the year.

The youthful cast wholeheartedly embraces their campy roles, infusing deliberately exaggerated emotions and expressiveness for an evening of light entertainment with the promised levels of blood and 'macabreness'.

Sadly, the screenplay lacks the same commitment to the absurd, resulting in tonal and thematic inconsistencies throughout a narrative less imaginative than anticipated. The ensuing indifference and uncertainty regarding the film's point and message leave a bittersweet taste..."

Rating: C

Horror-Comedy (not the opposite) directed by Zelda Willians in her full feature film, and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer's Body) that tells the story of a grief stricken teenager who had her mother slaughtered, and lives now with an abusive mother-in-law and a lovely sister-in-law.

Kathryn Newton as Lisa is perfect for her role.

Stigmatized by her past and actions the is the black swan of the school, and passes a lot of time in a old cemetery (watch the credits animation closely) of the 19th century on a tomb of another teenager that died with a green lighting into 1837.

The movie emulates the 80's teenage romance-comedies (it passes in 89), in a light way till a certain previsible point - for sure it isn't as sugary as you may think to those who wonder. And have an unsuspected ending. 

I think it was worth for some laughs on a weekend night - I score it 6,6 out of 10,0 / B for the fun.

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"Lisa" (Kathryn Newton) is a bit of a loner who lives in one of those second families where her rather feeble dad (Joe Chrest) has married the rather vain and odious "Janet" (Carla Gugino) who has a friendly daughter "Taffy" (Liza Soberano). At school, she has taken a shine to floppy-haired heart-throb "Michael" (Henry Einkenberry) and he seems to be a little interested too. Might romance blossom? Suddenly a lightening strike changes everything. The long-dead occupant of a grave she habitually sits beside when she is reading (Cole Sprouse) is electronically reinvigorated and finds his way into her home, her wardrobe and now, as with "ET", she has her own secret creature in the closet. Thing is, there are bits of her new friend missing - his ear, his tongue, his hand (that's not a comprehensive list!) - so the ensuing escapades mix science with comedy and some good old doses of vengeance as they try to restore him to his former, piano playing, glory. It could have been much more fun, this, if it had committed to the audience one way or the other. It's clearly gone for a wide appeal and so compromised on the darkness and adult nature of the humour. Many of the scenarios - especially at the the rather brutal and eye-watering conclusion, could have worked so much better had Zelda Williams aimed the movie more at those who could appreciate the dark comedy rather than dilute it down to something akin to a frat-comedy. It's better than I was expecting, and Newton does fine as the film progresses, it's just a shame it didn't really know were to go or who it was for.

There are glimpses of goodness, though so short they don't hide the film's frailties.

'Lisa Frankenstein' is, in my opinion, a disappointment. I can kinda see what they were going for and at times I could appreciate it, but all in all it doesn't really work for me. I will say the pacing isn't actually that bad, the film went by relatively quickly. The two big weaknesses to me were the dialogue and simply the story in general, both are rather quite dull... if they weren't, I may have enjoyed this.

The cast are one of the film's more positive features. I like Kathryn Newton, I remember thinking she was great in the similarly underwhelming '<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/freaky/" rel="nofollow">Freaky</a>' from 2020, and she does try with what she's got to work with here. Carla Gugino is possibly the standout, I would've liked to have seen more of her. Liza Soberano is alright, while Joe Chrest plays a literal continuation of his Ted Wheeler.

I will say that I felt the film did slightly improve towards the end, just not enough for me to say that I had a good time watching it unfortunately. I got to see this in <a href="https://letterboxd.com/r96sk/list/watched-in-an-empty-cinema/" rel="nofollow">an empty cinema</a>, which is always nice. I see this got released basically a month ago everywhere else, wonder why the UK got it so late. I guess as there seemingly aren't as many films out right now due to that sandworm movie <a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/dune-part-two/" rel="nofollow">thingy</a> taking over? Who knows.

A horrible movie written by an empathetically void and morally bankrupt sociopath.

In the beginning quirky with a torrent of jokes that all fall completely flat. Lighting done by what must be a blind diversity hire, as we almost can't see what's going on 90% of the time.

Then, our supposed protagonist becomes a psychopathic serial murderer, which apparently is not only okay, but something to laugh about and root for. Anyone crosses Lisa the slightest, they're fair game for being murdered and then mocked and their death celebrated with laughs and dancing.

I haven't seen anything this morally decrepit since Natural Born Killers, but that movie was an ironic critique of pop culture and the media's obsession with death and violence. This "movie" just plainly celebrates the same psychopathic behavior unironically and unapologetically. Ew.

That this filth can be produced today without someone not insane stopping it along the way worries me. I'd rather have my children watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than this insane on-screen feces.

Lisa Frankenstein( 2024)

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Written by Manuel São Bento on Wed Feb 07 2024

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