Kathryn Newton’s $13 million box office flop avoids a major horror movie problem of the past 89 years

Horror romance can be a difficult genre to get right, however Lisa Frankenstein Makes a valiant attempt to recreate both Frankenstein And Bride of Frankenstein For a modern audience. Although the cast of Lisa Frankenstein is excellent, its mixture of kooky teen drama, body horror, genuine romance and modern sexuality does not quite work, with the choice to make Lisa Frankenstein A comedy that overshadows what was an unexpectedly emotional love story. Although Lisa Frankenstein Could still become a cult hit, it did not do well at the box office, earning only $13 million against a budget of $9.9 million.

Lisa Frankenstein Starring Kathryn Newton, who has also starred in horror comedies, Freaky And Abigail. Although Freaky Done better than Lisa Frankenstein at the box office, Lisa Frankenstein Has an 81% positive audience rating on Rotten Tomatoesand is Kathryn Newton’s first horror romance. Something that very few horror romances confirm in any detail is the fact that the love interest, whether they are a vampire, zombie, ghost. Or monster, has a past life. Lisa Frankenstein does, and this is the moment that Lisa Frankenstein, Which also stars Cole Sprouse, becomes a love story.

Lisa Frankenstein actually addresses the monster’s past life (which many other horror romances avoid)

Lisa and The Creature to Know Each Other address the subject of consent later

In the 1935s Bride of FrankensteinThe bride is created from parts of corpses but none of the characters seem to care about the afterlife of any of her parts. This lack of backstory often plagues horror romances. Zombie romance Warm bodies Makes R’s lack of backstory a plot point, but even the wonderfully strange love story The shape of water Does not address the creature’s life before capture. Lisa Frankenstein has been compared to Edward ScissorhandsBut Kim knows little about Edward’s past, meanwhile in Lisa FrankensteinLisa gets to know the creature as a person.

in Lisa FrankensteinThe creature plays a song for Lisa and reveals that he wrote it. This moment is Lisa’s realization that he has a life (she spoke to his statue as more of a blank canvas), and this is when she begins to fall in love with the creature as a person and communicate with him as a person. As the creature does not speak Lisa Frankenstein For most of the movie, it is even more important that Lisa Frankenstein Shows him as a fleshed out character Who can communicate and give consent, as he and Lisa share intimate moments.

Lisa Frankenstein’s ending makes exploring the creature’s past even more important

The overuse of humor dilutes Lisa Frankenstein’s love story

The end of Lisa FrankensteinIn which Lisa chooses to die by electrocution in a faulty 1980s tanning bed, with a quotable line that could live on past the movie. “Death is temporary, I will love you forever” changes the history of Lisa Frankenstein From a retelling of Frankenstein to Bride of Frankenstein. Viewers know the story of the Creature and see Lisa fall in love with him before becoming a Creature herself, which could be seen as a way to give the Kale character justice, with a modern reboot and a backstory of her own.

It has been suggested that the overuse of comedy did not help. Lisa Frankenstein Successful as a movie or as a romance, it confuses the genres and dilutes both the humor and the love story. Lisa Frankenstein Was supposed to be funny, but the film may have taken inspiration from Edward ScissorhandsIn which the central love story took the more comical parts. By treating the creature as a rounded character, setting up a believable love story, and losing some of the sillier gags, Lisa Frankenstein has surprisingly more to offer than its original premise suggested.