A tragedy as much as a horror film, Depraved is a contemporary love letter to Mary Shelly's legacy

| Feb 19, 2020

At nearly two hours, Depraved can feel a little long in the tooth... Then again, the performances here are a little too strong for Fessenden's film to be anything other than a treat for fans of independent horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

A heartfelt, deftly mature 21st-century reimagining of author Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, indie auteur Larry Fessenden's Depraved is a movingly emotional monster movie that packs a pretty mean punch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2019

Depraved may not take you anywhere that you haven't been before, but it might leave you with a renewed appreciation for Shelley's mythic story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 13, 2019

"Depraved" is smart in its commentary on everything from the evils of the pharmaceuticals industry to the terrors of PTSD, but there's real heart and empathy here too.

| Sep 13, 2019

[A] film that is serious but not pretentious, working best when it stays in the laboratory. It will be welcomed by the director's fans, and may expand that number somewhat in its limited theatrical release.

| Sep 13, 2019

The film moves Mary Shelley's story two centuries into the future, and all it's got to add is that the guys who robbed graves and played god would, if they were alive today, be immature jerks.

| Sep 12, 2019

It puts a punctuation mark on the mythos and epic that Mary Shelley conjured up, and on which Mr. Fessenden puts such a delightfully gritty, sometimes gruesome spin.

| Sep 12, 2019

The movie has an unexpected poignancy: At the end of the day, it seems, all a monster really wants is a girl of his own.

| Sep 12, 2019

Larry Fessenden diagnoses the rot of our era through the shifting personalities and power dynamics of solipsistic men.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2019

Although mad doctor Henry (David Call) and his business partner Polidori (Joshua Leonard) are amoral enough to truly befit the film's title, the frankly rather long-winded political commentary didn't work as well for me as the lovesick monster himself.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 2, 2019

A return to form for filmmaker Larry Fessenden, with a fresh take on the Frankenstein story that's more DIY, experimental, and introspective with emotional gravitas.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 11, 2019

A fun and febrile tale that takes the moral temperature of our time with an almost invasive degree of accuracy.

| Original Score: B | Mar 20, 2019