CINEMA
LISA FRANKENSTEIN
Teenage Screams
Spoiler: real people in the ’80s didn’t look like this.
▶ RELEASED 1 MARCH 15 | 101 minutes
▶ Director Zelda Williams
▶ Cast Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Cole Sprouse, Carla Gugino
Some things were just better in the ’80s. Watching the 1989-set Lisa Frankenstein, you can’t help but long for a time when hair was back-combed within an inch of its life, and whimsical dark comedies featuring gothy teenage girls, like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Heathers, were actually funny.