“Lisa Frankenstein” is a new horror comedy by screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams starring Kathryn Newton.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- Lisa Frankenstein is a 2024 American horror comedy film
- It is directed by Zelda Williams
- This marks her feature-length directorial debut
- The script was written by Diablo Cody
- Starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino
- It takes place in the same fictional universe as Jennifer’s Body
- The film tells the story of a misunderstood teenage goth girl who reanimates a Victorian era corpse and works to make him into the man of her dreams
- The film was released on February 9, 2024 to mixed reviews
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 50% rating
- Based on 106 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 5.6/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “An affectionate callback to classic horror comedies of the ’80s, Lisa Frankenstein can be fun in its own right despite not quite measuring up to the movies it imitates”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100
- Based on 38 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average” reviews
- In the United States and Canada, Lisa Frankenstein is projected to gross $4 – 6 million
- From 3,140 theaters in its opening weekend
- Diablo Cody wrote the script for Lisa Frankenstein
- She announced that she would be producing the film with collaborator Mason Novick in June 2022
- Zelda Williams makes her feature-length debut as the director of the film starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse
- Further casting announcements of Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest, and Henry Eikenberry were also unveiled in August 2022
- Around the time when production began filming in New Orleans
- It was expected to run until September
- Lisa Frankenstein was released in the United States by Focus Features on February 9, 2024
- It is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures on March 1, 2024
- In 1989, Lisa Swallows, a teenage misfit, longs to be with the dead occupant from the Victorian era of her favorite grave
- Her wish unexpectedly comes true when a corpse rises from the grave and joins her in the land of the living
- Together, they embark on a journey to find the missing body parts of the corpse
- Along the way, they encounter challenges and adventures
- Navigating through themes of love, acceptance, and identity
