The Frankenstein Theory

2013
4.3| 1h27m| NR| en
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When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

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Nonureva Really Surprised!
Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
JoeB131 The Curse of the Blair Witch continues, with once again, an implausible concept of Found Footage of a horrifying event. The plot is that a descendant of an 18th century scientist leads a badly equipped badly planned expedition to Northern Canada to find Frankenstein's monster, who he claims his ancestor created. Faster than you can say "Public Domain", the characters are picked off one by one in fits of bad acting.The goofiness of these kinds of movies is that they would keep cameras rolling when all this horrific stuff is going on. "Hey, my friends are being killed all around me by an improbable supernatural force! I'd better keep filming. Oh, wait, I'm the only one left? I'd better set my camera up on a tripod so that it can capture my tragic yet entirely predictable demise!" they do a good job of keeping the Monster out of frame so you can't see how cheap and generally unimpressive it is. Oh, and for the reviewer who says you had to have read Mary Shelly's original work to truly appreciate it? Not really. I have, that really didn't add anything to it because Frankie just turns out to be another boring Found Footage Monster killing people for the sake of killing them. There's just nothing special about him.
badkitty-06421 worse than lair witch project! THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was done by high schoolers.. and the stupid movie was written by a dreamer! its good to 'dream' about stuff, but if u're putting it on the big screen, please put it in prospective. coz you've just wasted ur money on the cheap script, crap actors and really wasted a trip to the arctic. Frankenstein, being a fictional character that has been fascinating to the audiences for over the century, i really think he deserves more credits that you have given him. luckily, i found this in my local library... i don't think this movie even made it to the big screen in NZ. really not worth paying for it. I wonder how much were made at the box office?
jalna35-52-850660 Just watched The Frankenstein Theory (2013) with hope and enthusiasm, for both to be dashed sadly to the ground or maybe I should say snow. Our heroes, the descendant of Frankenstein or as he claims should be Venkenheim, a guide and a film team go to Canada to search for the Frankenstein monster in the Artic hoping to prove its existence. The filming is good the acting is not bad but the story line and script is weak and the err umm monster when we did see him was ....... What????? My sons when they were young could have made better creature costumes and today they definitely can. This film is in the Blair Witch genre and if you like that type of film you will be happy enough to watch this. But... be warned if you want a reasonable storyline, and some decent characters this is not for you. Its not scary even with all the lights out. Sorry
Martin Hitchings First thing to say is that I was attracted to this movie by the premise; that Frankenstein's monster is real! The idea of tracking down old Frankie in modern day times and what it meant was fascinating to me, however the delivery was somewhat of a disappointment.In fairness, I cannot criticise the acting, it was pretty good (especially Murphy's character) though I would say that our protagonist played by Chris Lemche, I personally felt was a little young for the watcher to take him seriously as a university professor. I also felt the cinematography was very good.My final point is that there was a lot of potential for the story that to my mind, wasn't even thought about; at the end of the day you could replace Frankenstein with any 'mythical' monster and it would have worked just as well. In that respect, I find the movie quite disappointing.A lot of reviews have scored this movie a lower than I think it deserves, there are (by far) much worse movies out there and whilst this one doesn't set the world on fire, I can think of worse ways of spending 87 minutes!