Written by Diablo Cody
Directed by Zelda Williams
Starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano and Carla Gugino
USA, 2024
Diablo Cody, screenwriter extraordinaire, returns to the horror genre with LISA FRANKENSTEIN, the timeless tale of a girl and her corpse. Firmly set in the early 90s, and loving every minute of it, this flick follows the fetching Kathryn Newton as the titular Lisa, a high schooler who lost her mom to tragedy and has gained a tragically awful stepmom.
One thing leads to another and before you know it, Lisa’s cemetery hangout is struck by lightning and the reanimated corpse of a turn-of-the-century hunk starts to do Lisa’s dirty work, first to her chagrin and then to her pleasure.
The laughs, gore and ingenuity escalate to their unavoidable conclusion as bodies go missing, body parts swap and a tanning bed is turned into a life-giving reanimation chamber. As usual, Cody actually seems to have something she wants to say here, and it’s probably spoken best in a scene in which even the nicest-seeming guy turns out to be a total creep. It’s no wonder Lisa has to dig deep to find love.
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