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“Lisa Frankenstein” Love Never Dies… It Just Gets Weird

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You may consider Lisa Frankenstein the funniest, goriest undead romance seen all year. 

A Monstrous Teen Romance

Surviving high school is hard enough on its own—add in the trauma of your mom being ax-murdered in your living room, and it becomes virtually impossible to cope. 

She Built the Perfect Boyfriend

Just ask Lisa Swallows, played by Kathryn Newton, the awkward 17-year-old trying to adjust to a new school and a new life after her mother’s death and her father’s hasty remarriage. 

Despite the unwavering support offered by plucky cheerleader step-sister Taffy, played by Liza Soberano, Lisa only finds solace in the abandoned cemetery near her house. She finds her commonality with a young man who died in 1837, tending his grave. 

Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa Swallows and Cole Sprouse as The Creature in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

A Love Story Unearthed

But everything changes one dark and stormy night in the fall of 1989. After being humiliated, Lisa makes a desperate and heartfelt wish—to be with the young man in the world beyond. When a monstrous-looking corpse, played by Cole Sprouse, turns up the following evening, Lisa realizes a cosmic misunderstanding has happened. 

Prom Night Meets the Afterlife

Still, she feels obligated to help the poor soul regain his humanity, and she embarks on a quest to breathe new life into her long-dead companion. All she needs to succeed is some freshly harvested body parts and Taffy’s broken tanning bed.

Cole Sprouse stars as The Creature and Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

Synths, Screams, and Sweethearts

A genuinely electrifying new horror-comedy, coming-of-rage romance, comes from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film also stars Carla Gugino, Joe Chrestnd, and Henry Eikenberry.

Reanimated Romance Gone Wrong

Director Zelda Williams makes her feature debut with the wildly inventive film, produced by Cody and Mason Novick under his MXN Entertainment banner.

Butterfield Stars in “The Space Between Us”

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Directed by Peter Chelsom, Space Between Us is an interplanetary adventure. A space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one astronaut is pregnant.

Shortly after landing, she dies from complications while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet— never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot, played by Asa Butterfield—an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who turns 16, having met only 14 people in his very unconventional upbringing.

While searching for clues about his father and the home planet he’s never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street-smart girl in Colorado named Tulsa, played by Britt Robertson. When he finally has time to go to Earth, he’s eager to experience all the wonders he could only read about on Mars— from the simplest to the extraordinary. But once his explorations begin, scientists discover that Gardner’s organs can’t withstand Earth’s atmosphere.

Eager to find his father, Gardner escapes the team of scientists and joins with Tulsa in a race against time to unravel the mysteries of how he came to be and where he belongs in the universe.

Gary Oldman, Brit Robertson, and Carla Cugino also star in the film.