It’s not original – in fact it relies too much on its many pop-cultural callbacks – but there’s something universal about Lisa’s emotions that any lovesick, sulky teen girl can revel in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2024

... a serviceable, fun goth romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2024

Just about fun enough to sustain 101 clattering, dusty, dimly lit minutes. Reviews will be mixed. But it has every chance of being resurrected as a cult classic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2024

Like the creature at the center of it, this starts out creaky... but then, again, like the creature at the center of it, it proceeds to find its feet and indeed its voice.

| Mar 6, 2024

Like Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (2009), also scripted by Diablo Cody, Lisa Frankenstein disinters a murderous monstrousness from female adolescence, empowerment and eros, while gradually reaffirming the (step)sisterhood.

| Mar 5, 2024

If the central character isn’t consistent or at least credible, what chance does the rest of this sloppily paced, tacked-together mess have?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2024

Cody comes up with some spiky lines... But if ever a film was in need of a 10-gigawatt jolt through the neck, it’s this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2024

At best, the film works as a riposte to Hughes’s naff sex comedy Weird Science, with Lisa building an ideal man who is strong, subservient, sexually dynamic and, best of all, silent. So, yes, lovely on paper.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2024

It’s clear Williams knows how to tell a story and with “Lisa Frankenstein” as her first wacky and wonderful calling card, there’s no denying she is a filmmaker to watch.

| Feb 27, 2024

It succeeds with us having a good time, and is capable of withstanding more than one viewing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 21, 2024

It's not Heathers.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 16, 2024

Though it may struggle to balance tone, Lisa Frankenstein is a crass, unapologetic love letter to the horrors of teenage girlhood, spearheaded by an electric turn from Kathryn Newton.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 15, 2024

These filmmakers seem to be making fun of those people [from the '80s], and that kind of bugged me... This just doesn't hold up very well, and it's not directed all that tightly either.

| Feb 13, 2024

A single-joke skit that’s too self-aware to be distinctively funny, freaky or thrilling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2024

The result is an interesting misfire, yielding a few amusing moments while adding up to considerably less than the sum of its parts.

| Feb 9, 2024

The smarter, sharper, funnier version of Lisa Frankenstein hovers tantalizingly over this movie without ever coming to fruition. Back to the morgue with it.

| Feb 9, 2024

A mood board for 80s goth kids that's more in love with its premise than its characters.

| Feb 9, 2024

Another Frankenstein throwback (“Poor Things” has nothing to fear) dressed up as a 1980’s teen sex comedy about a goth girl (Kathryn Newton) with the hots for an undead lover (Cole Sprouse). Diablo Cody’s devilish script is sadly tamed by a PG-13 rating.

| Feb 9, 2024

I laughed throughout, and even with all the goofily dismembered mayhem, there was an innate sweetness that captured my heart and refused to let it go.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2024

An uneven mash-up of 80s teen comedy and horror has some strong ideas but the tone wobbles when it tries to straddle.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 9, 2024