Teen romance isn’t lifeless anymore in Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein, the first-time characteristic filmmaker’s darkish horror comedy. Written by Diablo Cody, it stars Kathryn Newton (Freaky) as a excessive schooler who spends her time hanging with the lifeless in a neighborhood cemetery. When lightning strikes the tomb of her favourite bachelor, it cracks open—and the immediately residing corpse performed by Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) makes his approach to woo Lisa.
Lisa Frankenstein is a hyper-violent (but romantic) coming-of-age film that takes inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to spin a yarn about love and loss. At its core, it’s a love letter to how formative Frankenstein lore will be throughout one’s teenage years—particularly within the context of feminine rage. In io9’s sit-down with author Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams, the Jennifer’s Physique scribe talked about returning to the horror style.
“The kind of adolescent rage area is someplace that I had been earlier than. And so I used to be very, blissful to welcome Zelda into that world,” Cody mentioned about collaborating with the breakout filmmaker. “I’ve at all times been within the horror comedy style. I wrote Jennifer’s Physique like 15 years in the past, and the film is close to and expensive to me. I had at all times wished to do one thing else in that style however I felt form of discouraged for a few years as a result of Jennifer’s Physique had not discovered an viewers. After which when it did, I used to be like, okay, I’m going to do that once more, and the Frankenstein fable was one thing that I had at all times wished to play with.”
Dealing with the monsters you make or really feel like, particularly once you’re going into maturity, comes with accepting the various aspects of humanity with a humorousness. It’s one thing that Williams was in a position to faucet into effortlessly. “For me, anytime you’ve the chance to carry humor to one thing that, I feel for some folks, they’re both afraid of or it’s tough for them to deal with, I’m at all times going to leap,” the director mentioned. “So, you already know, teenage feminine expertise, however making it humorous and giving it mild and love was actually pretty, regardless of the entire violence as properly. That’s what actually drew me in.”
Lisa Frankenstein opens February 9.
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