There was bound to be someone who would turn the story of
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into a “true story” found footage film which is the
premise behind The Frankenstein Theory
(2013). Found footage films have become
as part of the film lexicon as say reality TV to television, so it should come
as no surprise that literature would be next to be embraced in the genre.
Jonathan Venkenhein (Kris Lemche) is a scientist whose
career has stalled because no one believes his theories that the infamous
Frankenstein of Mary Shelley’s novel was based on historical fact who was his
ancestor. He thinks that the Monster is
still alive and his goal is to prove the existence of the Monster. He takes a crew of filmmakers into the
wilderness to film his journey hoping to capture proof that he is right and to
validate his theories.
This sounds like an actual promising premise but the film
takes the format of The Blair Witch
Project (1999) but leaves out the suspense and character. The film makers bicker and disagree and
generally this film adds in a couple deaths but to little overall effect
because the characters are not in the least bit interesting. The film suffers from the same thing that most
of the found footage films suffer from which is that film makers make the worst
subjects for a film. It also doesn’t
help that Venkenhein comes off as a bad caricature and the actual Monster is
less than thrilling when it is actually revealed.
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