Ten Fantastic Films Like Lisa Frankenstein
Many watchers of genre-blending horror-romance-comedy Lisa Frankenstein sought for anything like to watch next. Combining horror and humor in a modern fashion that honored the terrifying films of the 1980s, it had campy costumes and settings, a bubbly plot, a gripping love story, and rather many killings. The fun and tone of the film captivated many viewers, which brought back memories of various cult horror comedies from the past forty years. These are some of the best films Lisa Frankenstein could have followed.
Totally Killer (2023)
Mostly taking place in the 1980s, Totally Killer is a time-travel horror comedy Returning to 1987, Jamie Hughes seeks to prevent the Sweet 16 Killer from killing her high school-aged mother's buddy group. More of a slasher than a creature picture, Totally Killer is violent with comic aspects. Still, the sci-fi and chronology parallels to Lisa Frankenstein are significant. Though even they grow complex at times, Totally Killer develops its own time travel laws, like most time travel Movies.
Totally Killer is rife with high school murders and bullies, same as Lisa Frankenstein and many other teen horror comedy. Given its interesting story and graphic deaths, the movie was less known than it could have been as it had a limited theater release and moved straight to Prime Video.
Re- Animator (1985)
Among the undead zombie subgenre of horror, Re-Animator is a noteworthy film. Though not without terrible and fatal side effects, the film centers on Dr. Herbert West, who has discovered how to resurrect the dead. Like in Lisa Frankenstein, the zombies in the movie are explained using science instead of mystical electricity. The film derived from a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft serial novelette called "Herbert West–Reanimator."
Many deaths in the movie also go under the name of building a more formidable monster. Re-Animator, with its first version too graphic for even a R classification, is known as one of the more horrific Movies in the genre, nonetheless. Still, the movie is categorized as a horror comedy with sporadic ridiculous situations and humor. Re-Animator was first well-received following revisions and has since grown to be a cult favorite.
2020 is spontaneous.
Another coming-of-age horror comedy, Spontaneous, opens in a school where students start to explode inexplicably. Like Lisa and The Creature, Mara Carlyle and Dylan Hovemeyer start a romance on a timeline and don't know when their time together will be ended, hence the movie is also a love story. Though this film does not allow for zombie resurrections, Spontaneous concludes with the death of a major character, same as Lisa Frankenstein.
Still, Spontaneous has a hopeful finish, much as Lisa Frankenstein's cheerful last remark on love. Spontaneous hammers home its moral to really live. Unlike many other films in the genre, this one distinguishes itself by not necessarily featuring a villain but rather a mystery illness killing people. Though it has same thematic themes, Spontaneous is more of an apocalyptic movie than a high school slasher or creature flick.
Jawbreaker (1999)
Black comedy crime movie Jawbreaker boasts campy clothes and vivid colors. It centers on a popular high school girl clique that kills the fourth member of their group unintentionally and runs to hide it. Inspired by Heathers, which likewise examines the high school social structure and how simple it is to hide a death, the film, like Lisa Frankenstein,
Though technically not a horror film, Jawbreaker emphasizes on high school politics and the ephemeral nature of life. Like Lisa Frankenstein, Jawbreaker thematically shows the lovely innocence of high school girls against death's gloom. The movie had a bad first reception, yet it has grown to be a cult favorite.
Jennifer's Body: 2009
Another high school creature picture penned by Diablo Cody is Jennifer's Body. The movie centers Jennifer Check, a succubus who turns out to be somewhat disappointing for her best buddy Needy. To consume their male classmates, Jennifer spends the movie wooing and killing them. Apart from their author, the movies have enough resemblance that a theoretical Jennifer's Body and Lisa Frankenstein's universe exists.
Both films center a monster-human friendship with romantic elements. Every video features young women who grow and develop in response to supernatural and graphic events, therefore acquiring a feeling of self. Both movies include female directors aside from a cast headed by women and a shared writer.
The Final girls 2015
Transporting a group of high students into a slasher film named "Camp Bloodbath," The Final Girls offers a satirical view of the horror subgenre. Lead by Max Cartwright, the friends and actors—stuck in a time loop—try to live against a killer wielding a machella. The characters follow the guidelines they have acquired over years when they discover they are in a horror movie.
The Final Girls plays with horror clichés, generating comedy and absurdity, much as Lisa Frankenstein's satirical approach on zombies and "80s films". Comedian actors abound throughout the movie. While lampooning the clichés, The Final Girls and Lisa Frankenstein honor classic movie elements and are homages to 1980s horror flicks. Though the movie is still very unknown, critics in 2015 gave the Final Girls largely favorable comments.
1993: My Boyfriend's Back
Like Lisa Frankenstein, My Boyfriend's Back is a horror comedy with a zombie boyfriend. Johnny Dingle comes from the dead in the movie in order to try to see Missy McCloud, his crush. Missy first seems rather dubious, but she accepts a date with zombie Johnny. Though the film mostly centers on Johnny's experience rather than Missy's, the underlying ideas recall those in Lisa Frankenstein.
At the time, My Boyfriend's Back got bad reviews since many said the film failed to find the proper tone. Originally, the idea consisted on numerous sketches subsequently merged to make a full-length movie. It is among the few relationships between a zombie-boyfriend and a human-girlfriend, just like Lisa Frankenstein. The movies also reflect the same era since they debuted in early 1990s. In his first performance, My Boyfriend's Back also has appearances by Cloris Leachman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Matthew McConaughey among other well-known performers.
2020 Freaky
In several horror roles, Kathryn Newton has shown herself to be a contemporary scream queen. Newton appeared in the horror comedy Freaky 2020. Inspired by Freaky Friday, Newton's Millie Kessler swaps bodies with the local serial killer, the Blissfield Butcher. The film tracks Millie as she tries to persuade her friends of body swapping and the Butcher, who finds killing far simpler in a teenage girl's body.
Like Lisa Frankenstein, Freaky weaves comedy with horror. While the plot is ridiculous, Vaughn and Newton's comic yet terrifying acting heightens the graphic nature of the deaths. Newton does a lot of amazing kills in a cryogenic cell and with a table saw, so perfectly capturing the merciless killer.
Ed Scissorhands (1990)
Like Lisa Frankenstein, Edward Scissorhands chronicles the tale of a rather typical girl who develops feelings for a monster. The film centers on Edward, who despite his terrible looks joins the Boggs family. There he starts to perceive Kim in a romantic light, both of which feels understood by the other. Edward is quiet and sensitive, much like Lisa Frankenstein's monster is. The characters have an obvious relationship since both films chronicle the tale of loving an outcast and feeling adrift as an adolescent.
Regarding their degrees of campiness, both films are likewise rather comparable. In Burton's classic fashion, the world of Edward Scissorhands is uncanny and relatively perfect, making it unnerving. Lisa Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands both use bright, unnatural colors to add a fantastical element to a seemingly ordinary world in which monsters exist.
Heathers (1989)
Heathers is a black comedy that shifted the tone from the light-hearted coming-of-age movies of the 1980s. It follows Veronica Sawyer as she teams up with brooding JD, who is on a crusade to end the suffering of high schoolers, namely by ending their lives. The similarities between Heathers and Lisa Frankenstein are vast, but a main one is the romantic element between a macabre girl and her morbid boyfriend.
Heathers has the 1980s vibe that Lisa Frankenstein tries to emulate, complete with big, poofy hair and retro phrases. Lisa's over-the-top wardrobe borders on a parody of the late 1980s style, but it only adds to the movie's camp. Lisa Frankenstein is a great companion film for Heathers, as they both tell similar stories in similar settings but were created in vastly different contexts.
