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Frankenstein
USA 2015
produced by
Christian Angermayer, Gabriela Bacher, Klemens Hallmann, Heidi Jo Markel, Jennifer Holliday Morrison, Mohammed Hans Dastmaltchi (executive), Avi Lerner (executive), Yasin Qureshi (executive) for Bad Badger, Eclectic Pictures, Summerstorm Entertainment
directed by Bernard Rose
starring Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Danny Huston, Tony Todd, Maya Erskine, Dave Pressler, Carol Anne Watts, Mckenna Grace, James Lew, Mary Gallagher, Adam Nagaitis, Jorge-Luis Pallo, John Lacy, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Ron Roggé, Matthew Jacobs, Steve Hart, Rob Mars, Carlton Caudle, Jerry Ying, LaDell Preston, Jeff Hilliard, Jay Hawkins
screenplay by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Mary W. Shelley, music by Halli Cauthery
Frankenstein
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Scientist couple Viktor (Danny Huston) and Elizabeth Frankenstein
(Carrie-Anne Moss) and a handful of fellow scientists have created an
artificial human being they dub Adam (Xavier Samuel) - and Adam especially
responds to Mrs Frankenstein, whom he soon calls mama. But Adam's cells
decay just a bit too rapidly, so Viktor decides to put him down - out of
mercy, he thinks ... but faced with this, Adam escapes and hides in the
wilderness to escape recapture - but the Frankensteins are much too busy
to work on perfecting their method to create life to really give much
thought on him, so he's left to fend for himself while his skin is showing
more and more rashes, and his body is rotting away. Eventually, he dares
to go among people, but his first interaction with a little girl he almost
drowns accidently but then saves leads to atercations with the law, which
he gets out of thanks to superhuman strength and almost-invulnerability.
Eventually, Adam makes friends with blind bum Eddie (Tony Todd), who
teaches him the ways of life and actually tries to hook him up with a
prostitute with a heart of gold (Maya Erskine) ... who only freaks out
when she sees Adam's grotesque sex organ, which leads to him killing her.
Then, with the hooker's smartphone to guide him, Adam sets out to be
re-united with his "mother" Elizabeth Frankenstein again,
leaving behind a trail of terror mostly due to run-ins with the law - but
the reunion is bound to end in tragedy! Bernard Rose's version
of Frankenstein
is a highly original one, inasmuch as it more than any earlier version
does side with the monster, and the horrors of the movie are much more
those that happen to him than those he, unable to understand the ways of
the world, dishes out - and Rose is capable enough a director to make
these horrors really tangible and thus prevent this from just being a
sappy story of a misunderstood youth (which Adam essentially is). He's of
course helped by Xavier Samuel's very involving performance, leading a
truly first rate cast. Totally worth a look!
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