Lisa Frankenstein review
An 80’s teen romcom about a Victorian corpse who becomes more animated every time he uses a tanning bed? Count me IN! Image courtesy of Focus Features.
Lisa is really going through it. As if high school isn’t hard enough, she’s having to navigate it without her mother. Her step sister is the poster child for popularity, and her image obsessed step mother just doesn’t get Lisa’s quirky, macabre sensibilities. One fateful night when Lisa’s crush, a Victorian cadaver whose gravesite she visits regularly, is reanimated the two set off on a murderous adventure to bring his body fully into the 20th century.
Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse in Lisa Frankenstein. Image courtesy of Focus Features.
This film is fun, over-the-top, and the perfect combination of camp and gore. Cole Sprouse drips swaggy sex appeal in a way that only he can pull off while playing a mute, rotting corpse. Kathryn Newton carries the film with her awkward charm and somehow makes a completely unbelievable character totally relatable. Liza Soberano put a fun twist on the perfect step sister. She’s never a bully, just beautifully unrelatable and never fully trustworthy. Joe Chrest, aka Ted Wheeler from Stranger Things, is the quintessential disengaged dad and I am fully here for him being typecast in this role forever. Overall, Lisa Frankenstein is a blast. If you are a fan of My Best Friend’s Exorcism, or anything by Tim Burton, this movie is definitely for you!
Image courtesy of Focus Features.
Review written by Zianna Weston