“Lisa Frankenstein” Production Designer Mark Worthington on Reimagining 1980s Horror Comedy
In a send-up of 1980s slasher flicks, Lisa (Kathryn Newton), the anti-heroine of writer Diablo Cody’s and director Zelda Williams’s Lisa Frankenstein, spends too much time in an abandoned cemetery and accidentally calls up a deceased 18th-century hottie (Cole Sprouse) from the dead. Since Lisa is already in love with a living boy, Michael Trent ...
“Lisa Frankenstein” Costume Designer Meagan McLaughlin Luster on Dressing a Muse and a Monster
In Juno and Jennifer’s Body, screenwriter Diablo Cody depicted the worldview of alienated teenage girls with pitch-perfect wit. Her latest film, Lisa Frankenstein (in theaters now), directed by Zelda Williams, grafts Mary Shelley’s 19th-century monster myth onto the modern horrors of high school. Set in 1989, the movie casts Kathryn Newton as depressed Goth girl ...
The First Trailer for Diablo Cody’s “Lisa Frankenstein” Raises the Dead
What’s a girl to do when she’s separated from the boy she loves? Well, if she’s in the movies, she’s going to do whatever it takes, even when what’s separating them isn’t overprotective parents, rival romantic competition, or even unrequited love, but death itself. This is the conceit writer Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams ...
