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Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

Frankenstein at the LFF review: a vampy, campy Gothic fever-dream

It’s been 200 years since Mary Shelley sat down and wrote Frankenstein, and yet its themes – man’s arrogance, cruelty and inhumanity to man – still feel chillingly relevant.

A story about humans overreaching and giving monstrous new life to a misunderstood, yet deadly, creature? Well, hello upcoming AI revolution. Factor in some killer costume design and excellent performances from an all-star cast, and what you have is something that still has lessons to teach us.

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