New Lisa Frankenstein trailer unveils first look at Fall of House of Usher star in comedy twist on classic monster movie
The new trailer for Lisa Frankenstein offers up all you could want from the comedy-leaning romance horror: splashes of blood, resurrected, rotting Romeos, and a first look at Carla Gugino's character.
Described as a "coming of rage story" that puts a kooky teenage spin on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and Universal's 1931 adaptation, it centers on Lisa (Marvel's Kathryn Newton), who spends her days journaling and daydreaming about the young man whose anonymous tombstone takes pride of place in her local cemetery.
Lisa's lackluster life gets turned upside down, though, when her cadaver crush inexplicably returns from the dead, and she sets about trying to teach him how to be the perfect boyfriend. Soon, the lovers embark on a twisted joint mission: to rid Lisa's town of all its "bad people", all while collecting fresh body parts to restore The Creature (Cole Sprouse) back to his former glory.
Written by Diablo Cody, who famously penned beloved cult classic Jennifer's Body, and directed by Zelda Williams, the movie also features Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest, and Henry Eikenberry.
Gugino, who most recently appeared in Mike Flanagan's Netflix series The Fall of the House, shows up around the 1:20 mark in the flick's latest featurette, which you can watch above. It seems as if she's playing Lisa's aerobics-loving stepmother, who isn't so fond of the ghoulish guy her partner's "psycho" daughter keeps having over.
"I have something called aphantasia [the inability to create mental imagery] so I need visual references," Williams told Total Film in a recent interview, when asked about her genre and '80s influences. That meant creating a lookbook when she was initially approached about the project, which wound up being crammed with
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