Previously posted on blog and written by B. Demeter
The Frankenstein Theory (2013) is a found footage monster film that shouldn’t have been found.
Rarely does a movie with a run time of less than 90 minutes seem long, but Frankenstein Theory (at 1 hour 27 minutes, including credits) seems too long. This movie is just so boring.
Here is the premise, smart guy thinks Mary Shelly based Frankenstein on a true story and that he is the ancestor of the guy who created the monster. He gets a film crew together to search northern Canada to try and find the monster. The crew, for the most part, don’t believe smart guy but are along for the ride. Everyone eventually gets killed but always off camera. None of the characters are really that interesting.
That’s fucking it, folks.
If you trimmed the 87 minutes of this film down to the actual worthwhile watchable parts I don’t know if you could even make a Vine of this movie. For brevity sake, let’s just totally forget the first 2/3 of this movie, which is all set-up anyway. The crew makes it up to the yurt/shack where they hear a whole bunch of weird noises. The debate over whether that growl was a bear or Frankenstein is a hot one. Tensions flair. People start getting knocked off; again, always off camera. Eventually it is down to smart guy and the female film crew person. Smart guy tries to talk to the monster and gets killed (OFF CAMERA). Then the monster storms into the yurt and grabs the female and walks out. End of film. Roll credits.
And that’s another thing, you never get a good look at the monster until the last minute of the film. It is always off in the distance. You hear it grumbling a lot out side and the people reacting to that, but you don’t see the actual Frankenstein. And when you finally do see the monster it looks like some dirty bum wearing a bunch of random furs. He changes height too. At some points he is as tall as the shack but at the end he easily walks through the shack’s door.
I’m willing to bet that anyone who watched this movie on Netflix did so because the cover art looks badass. That is why I watched it. But I’m here to tell you the creature effects in this movie in no way live up to the cover. The cover art is the best part of the movie, which is sad. If the filmmakers had gone for a short movie format and gotten the creature effects right this would have been infinitely more satisfying experience.
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