Despite being set two hundred years after his creation, the titular creator’s monster – named Adam for this movie – actually mentions Frankenstein in the clip, but the brief look at the movie doesn’t offer up quite enough to give us an idea of just how essential a watch I, Frankenstein will be.
The past few years have seen Hansel and Gretel turned into witch hunters and recast Abraham Lincoln as a vampire killer, so audiences are sure to be sceptical about a classic like Frankenstein reimagined in such a way. Will it work? We’ll find out when the movie is released on January 24th in the US and 29th January here in the UK.
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