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The Frankenstein Theory

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A professor leads a film crew to the Arctic Circle to prove that author Mary Shelley's tale of "Frankenstein" is true.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post Fourteen years after "Blair Witch," has the whole found-footage-horror genre jumped the shark? Maybe. Weiner, however, manipulates its well-worn tropes deftly. Rated: 2/4 Mar 1, 2013 Full Review Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) It's the first found-footage film I can remember to marry the 21st-century horror genre to classic horror from a century ago, and that makes it at least worth a look. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 8, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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noel g THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD I DONT GIVE A FUCK IF PEOPLE SAY ITS TRASH ITS AMAZING IS KRIS LEMCHE IS SO FINE Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/11/23 Full Review D C It took me a few passovers until I watched this horrified, hellified movie. Yes indeed the off screen deaths limited much BUT and especially with no theme music interfering, the scenes bought me in more. The sounds of death made the horror as it translates wtf did Frankenstein do? I felt terrible for them because out of the many FF films flooding the market still in 2023, this was better produced, acted, written, located, filmed. It bought me back to Blair Witch and feeling realer to me like a horror movie should. I feel the purpose of film was to bring an incredible, thought-provoking concepts of the book being "based on a true story" premise of real experiments. And sadly, I believe the film is meant to also leave the viewer feeling empty as in "I can't believe this happened" or "no no no not that!". More original than most FF films. Enjoy people. Very under rated!! The Monster Project is next best classic horror FF to this movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I actually really liked it. One of the better “found footage” movies Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/04/18 Full Review Audience Member This movie is not getting great reviews and I really don't understand why. It's certainly not a big budget movie but for fans of horror films this is certainly not bad. It's very similar in style to the Blair Witch Project. I would definitely recommend giving this a watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Creating the air of mystery around what exactly is responsible for the attacks, and leaving the creature off focus for the whole movie for a shocking final reveal in the last sequence might have been more effective if the damn thing wasn't ALREADY ON THE BLOODY DVD COVER. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review jesse o Another day, another found footage movie. Kinda surprised that this is the first found footage in the horror fest. Though, of course, it's obvious, as evidenced by the score for this, that I didn't think that this was a very good movie. I know that I've been defending the concept and the style that this movie employs, but the movies I've seen lately have certainly made me look very foolish about defending it. Though, if I am being honest, this wasn't close to being the worst example of the genre. Alien Abduction is considerably worse than this what with all the glitches that felt more like a hollow way to get around the fact that the film was just really cheaply made. At the very least, to me anyway, this movie doesn't have the same amount of infuriating glitches. I'm not saying that they're completely absent from this, but there as many that drove me up the wall like the ones in Alien Abduction did. Conceptually speaking, it's not like the movie had such a great idea that you can see that there was potential that the movie just didn't live up to, but it's at the least somewhat intriguing in that you want to see where the film heads, but are slightly disappointed when you finally do get to the end result. The problem with this is that they take an idea that, realistically speaking, would have made for a good episode of an anthology series, like Masters of Horror or a modern Twilight Zone. The film just has, maybe, less than 40 minutes of actually interesting material. They throw in some comedy there to make it seem like stuff is actually going on, but there's really not much. Thankfully the movie isn't that long, but when you are stretching out things twice past what their normal length should be, it ends up making this feel longer than it actually should. I'm not saying that what the film does is bad or anything close to that, it's just a little boring to be honest. You do wanna see the 'real' Frankenstein in question, but that's about it. There's nothing else to the movie past that. And when you DO get to see Frankenstein, talk about disappointing as fuck. The fact of the matter is that, really, the only thing that could have helped this movie was if it ended up being super gory, and I mean like Evil Dead remake type of gory. They didn't have the budget for that, so the gore is really very minimal. So you have a boring movie with nothing really going on until the last 15 minutes or so and no gore. What are you gonna get? This, a below average movie and another real poor example of the found footage genre. I can't really recommend this movie in the slightest. Even if you have watched every horror movie in the face of the earth minus this one. It's just not very good. Not the worst, but just a below average movie that offers very little in redeemable qualities. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A professor leads a film crew to the Arctic Circle to prove that author Mary Shelley's tale of "Frankenstein" is true.
Director
Andrew Weiner
Producer
Vlady Pildysh, Gary Bryman, Andrew Weiner, Caleb Kramer
Screenwriter
Vlady Pildysh, Andrew Weiner
Production Co
Rocket Studios
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 23, 2013
Runtime
1h 27m
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