The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster trailer resurrects Frankenstein for the modern age
The Equalizer's Laya DeLeon Hayes stars in Bomani J. Story's reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel
No one was doing gothic horror like Mary Shelley, who basically crafted the science-fiction genre with her iconic 1818 book Frankenstein. Even more than 200 years later, Shelley’s writing on death and loneliness continues to be ripe for revisiting, with film adaptations still being made interpreting the classic creature novel. That’s what we see in the first trailer for The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster, which brings the haunting tale of Frankenstein into our modern world.
Written and directed by Bomani J. Story in his feature film debut, this new take follows mad scientist Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes), “a young Black girl whose talent for scientific invention meshes uneasily with her firsthand experience of death,” writes Entertainment Weekly.
“Death is a disease,” Vicaria says in the trailer, hypothesizing that a cure can be crafted after dealing with the loss of her brother to gun violence and her mother to cancer. This leads the young scientist down the path of upending the cycle of life and bringing back her older brother from the dead—but not without some gory consequences.
Inspired by Shelley’s timeless tale, Story explained to Entertainment Weekly that he really wanted to dive into the perceptions of the so-called “monster,” taking into perspective how others start “judging this creature before he opens his mouth.”