SXSW's The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster retells Frankenstein as a Black horror.
Laya DeLeon Hayes plays"Vicaria," a sixteen year-old genius who desperately seeks to cure death, in SXSW selectionDeath is a disease. At least, that’s how the heroine of SXSW selectionHer mother caught the virus of Fate when she was younger. The opening shot of the movie shows her brother sprawled across the lawn, bullet wounds still fresh, another victim of the sickness that follows fiery teenager Vicaria everywhere she goes.
In his version, Enlightenment-era scientist Victor Frankenstein translates to quick-witted Vicaria , a brilliant thinker whose distaste for authority clashes with her Karen-esque schoolteacher. Story credits his two older sisters as inspiration for Vicaria’s misunderstood genius. That this story captures something deeply personal for the filmmaker also owes to his profound love of horror cinema and its masters. “I lifted that line, [‘Death is a disease,’] from one of my favorite movies,, to pay homage to [Darren] Aronofsky,” Story said before delving into the influence of Lars Von Trier, Stanley Kubrick’s.
On top of a production partner in Crypt TV, the film was now been acquired by distributor RLJE Films and slasher heavyweight streamer Shudder. The attention from these scary movie platforms speaks to a new wave of interest in material that blends genre convention with social commentary. Think Jordan Peele’s
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