Frankensteins and Draculas
Sometimes the most familiar stories can yield the most unexpected delights. This year proved there’s still room for a wide range of tales inspired by Frankenstein and Dracula. Emma Stone’s stunning turn as a resurrected woman in Poor Things may be getting all the awards chatter at the moment, but 2023 also gave us an unlikely found family in Birth/Rebirth, as well as the lively The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. On the bloodsucker side we got Nicolas Cage’s fang-tastically campy performance as Dracula in Renfield, and a completely different take exploring one specific portion of Bram Stoker’s novel in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. We’re assuming this trend will never die (ahem), and the stage couldn’t be better set for Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated Nosferatu and Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein in 2024.
