Frankenstein

2015
R
1h 29m

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A married couple of scientists create a modern-day monster.A married couple of scientists create a modern-day monster.A married couple of scientists create a modern-day monster.

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5.1/10

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Awards
- 3 wins total

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Storyline

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Trivia
Closed captioning on the film gives away the climactic discovery of the monster's, that he has a name.

Goofs
At the end, Elizabeth is dead. But when Adam carries her, her arm is completely wrapped around his neck as he carries her to the fire. A dead person's arm could not maintain such a position, even if placed there by the carrier; only a live person, using muscles, would be able to keep the arm up like that. Without muscles, it would just hang down behind him. Also, as he carries her, his left arm is supporting her torso and her head is upright. Again, a head maintaining such a position would be impossible for a dead person. A dead person would have no muscles to keep a head up. Instead, it would droop backwards in the direction of gravity. Finally, as he places her down on the burning logs, her head slowly descends, whereas it should fall down, since, again, there are no working muscles to control its descent. All of this is also true if she were merely unconscious.

Connections
Referenced in The Candyman Legacy with Tony Todd (2015)

Soundtracks
Mannish Boy
Written by Melvin London, Bo Diddley (as Elias McDaniel) and Muddy Waters (as McKinley Morganfield)
Performed by Tony Todd

A modern Frankenstein that never forgets its roots.

Bernard Rose has successfully translated Mary Shelley's original novel by turning it into a Cronenbergian body horror tragedy.

The performances are stellar with Xavier Samuel making a heartbreaking Monster and Tony Todd stealing the show as a blind musician.

The direction is superb and horror fans will be pleased by the gruesome practical effects. If there are any weak points here, it would be the extremely brisk pacing and a few odd editing decision.

The ending is also frustratingly abrupt. Beyond that, it is nothing less than a triumph of genre filmmaking and the sort of thing I wish to see more of from the horror world.