Ah, past love. There’s nothing fairly like it’s there, particularly when the item of your affection is a lifeless particular person. So it goes in “Lisa Frankenstein,” a self-described “coming of RAGE love story” starring Kathryn Newton as a (per the movie’s synopsis) “misunderstood teenager” whose crush — a corpse portrayed by Cole Sprouse — is introduced again to life by way of “a set of playfully horrific circumstances.” Effectively, if that is not an ingenious variation in your typical meet-cute, then I do not know what’s. Additionally, how nice is it to have each Newton and Sprouse as soon as once more working within the realm of twisted but touching highschool horror romance after their earlier work on “Freaky” and “Riverdale,” respectively? Now all we want is a few moody, overwrought voiceover narration from Sprouse and we will really get this social gathering began.
Whereas it was clearly impressed by Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic masterpiece “Frankenstein; or, The Trendy Prometheus,” Cody and Williams’ movie is in any other case very a lot its personal lumbering beast, as you’ll be able to see from the first-look footage. Its forged additionally contains Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, and Joe Chrest, in addition to considered one of our presently reigning Scream Queens, Carla Gugino (recent off her deliciously macabre flip in “The Fall of the Home of Usher”). The movie will bow in theaters on February 9, 2024, making it simply in regards to the excellent viewing possibility for these in search of one thing to observe on Valentine’s Day.