We dive into TheAngryBlackGirlAndHerMonster with filmmaker Bomani J. Story, who breaks down his fresh Frankenstein twist and shares his love of the horror genre:
The iconic tale of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is getting a fresh take with The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. The film centers on Vicaria, a teenage genius who, after losing both her mother and her brother to gang violence, tries to use science to resurrect her brother, only to result in the creation of a monster that puts the rest of her family in danger.
Bomani J. Story on The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster Screen Rant: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a beautiful movie, it's powerful, it's terrifying. I know you've talked before about what drove you to want to deliver your own take on Frankenstein, but I feel there's such a reverence for the horror genre throughout the movie, and I know you've you made a horror short before.
Bomani J. Story: I think that you're always trying to [do that]. All the movies that I love, that I aspire to try to one day make something as great as them, because we're always chasing that, I will never catch it, but I still think the act of chasing it is still what I need to be doing. All those films always have these strange horror [elements] and have social commentary in the middle of them somewhere.
With Kango, we briefly get to see some of what's motivating him in the latter third of the film with the older family member he's taking care of. Was there any step in the writing process or actual filming where you further explored that dynamic? Bomani J. Story: We were searching and then she just came in and gave an audition, and I just remember sitting there and being like, "Who am I dealing with right now? Is this real? This person is so phenomenal." [Laughs] She was just incredible in the audition, and then on top of the audition, she just kept pulling more. More emotion, more vulnerabilities, more dimensions, every time we would like do a scene together, she would just pull more and more and more out.
Bomani J. Story: It's crazy that we're even having this conversation right now, to be honest. [Laughs] I don't know, like, you hope your thing gets made, but you don't know, so you're kind of just running around, and then now we're here, what I'm talking about is a movie that comes out in a week, I think this is probably going to release when it's like coming out.
One of the things that I love about the movie, for the horror genre, is your devotion to practical effects throughout. it is shocking at times to see how far it goes. Was that something you wanted to go even further with? Bomani J. Story: Well, it was the collaboration between my cinematographer Daphne and I, really talking about what we want to achieve with this, and me talking to her and telling her like, "Look, I want this to have a distinct look and feel some of these '70s horror movies that I love have a texture to them that I love, and I want to bring that to life."
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