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* 80sHair: Lisa in particular, has a very long bushy, curly with a lot of volume.



* AbusiveParent: Janet is a horrible stepmother to Lisa, undermining the girl's mental state, chalking her up to being a disturbed individual.
* ACupDistress: Her boss at her job makes a comment always her being able to work on Saturdays. He chalks this up to her not being able to get a date, before making a comment about her being flatchested.
* AdultsAreUseless
** Also, the neighbors who are sitting on their lawn reading while Lisa is screaming bloody murder as the Creatures chases her across their lawn don't even bother to look up to see what is going on.



* TheAloner: Tabby has to drag Lisa to come out to a house party with her because Lisa would rather stay at home and not interact with each other.



* AnAxeToGrind: The Creature uses an axe to cut off Doug's hand and (spoiler: Michael's genitals]].



* BitchInSheepsClothing: Doug is a pleasant nerdy film buff who comes to Lisa's aid when she accidentally takes a hallucinogen [[spoiler:so he can grope and attempt to date rape her.]]

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During her drugged state and after being sexually assaulted at the party, Lisa comes to the cemetary and goes to the creature's tombtone, where she says that she wishes he was with him. Her wish comes true when a lightning storm resurrects the Creature who then comes looking for her. When he indicates that this what brought him back, she quickly explains that she didn't mean it like that, but rather that she wished she could die after all the humiliation she had just endured.
* BerserkButton: Lisa snaps when*
BitchInSheepsClothing: Doug is a pleasant nerdy film buff who comes to Lisa's aid when she accidentally takes a hallucinogen [[spoiler:so he can grope and attempt to date rape her.]]]]
* BitchSlap: Janet gives one to Lisa for talking back to her after the the woman kept insulting her.



* BlamingTheVictim: Janet, a nurse who works at a psych ward, blames Lisa's apparent behavior as wanting attention after being put in the spotlight during her mother's death.
* BluffingTheAuthorities: Once the Creature's kills start to pile up, Lisa is inevitably questioned by the authorities about the murders.



* BrokenBird: Lisa at the beginning of the film. Witnessing her mother's death, being ostracized at her new school and enduring Janet's abuse have turned her into a withdrawn and deeply unhappy person. [[spoiler:She starts to get better as she befriends The Creature and confronts her fear of death.]]

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* BrokenBird: Lisa at the beginning of the film. Witnessing her mother's death, being ostracized at her new school and enduring Janet's vebal abuse have turned her into a withdrawn and deeply unhappy person. [[spoiler:She starts to get better as she befriends The Creature and confronts her fear of death.]]]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Lisa's skills at sewing comes in handy in attaching new body parts to the Creature.
* CondescendingCompassion: Janet, who is a pysch nurse of all things, acts like a passive aggressive with her stepdaughter.
* CovertPervert: Lisa is shown to become this. When woken up by Tabby, she is embarrassed to find her hand in her pants. Later, when the Creature finds a back massager in her closet, he tells her he probably wouldn't want to touch that. Later, when he uses it to massage her back, she tells him that he can use somewhere else, implying that she regularly uses it to pleasure herself.
* CreepyLonerGirl: Lisa plays this in the beginning starting out as a secluded young woman that is drawn to macabre and dark antics.
* CuteAndPsycho: Lisa becomes this as she and the Creature start getting closer, as she begins taking a liking to wearing dark and gothic clothing.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Not that she was mean, but Lisa was very cold and distant towards those around her even her own family. Her interactions with the Creature has her begin to open up, sharing her love for music, movies, and shows.
* DisposingOfTheBoy: After the Creature unintentionally kills Janet and takes her ear, Lisa tells him that they have to hide her body, otherwise they will be caught by the authorities. They end up putting the body in the an empty plot in the cemetary. It is implied that they do this to Doug.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Since it is from the Victorian era, it takes a while for the Creature to operate a car.
* EarAche: The Creature's body is intact, but among its missing appendages is its right ear, which it is ashamed of not having. Later, after spontaneously killing Janet to protect Lisa, the Creature makes use of the body by cutting of Janet's ear and has Lisa reattach it for him.


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* EvilMakeover: Not really evil, but Lisa slowly starts to wear more black and darker themed clothes.
* TheFinickyOne: Janet is horrid nan
* FriendlessBackground: Lisa doesn't appear to have any friends outside of her adoptive sister. She mentions how moving to her current home when her dad married Janet, forcing her to leave her school and friends behind.
* FriendlessInsult: A few people make jabs at Lisa's lack of social life or friends. Her own even jokes how she is always available on Saturday and is surprised when a guy that comes into his shop knows her.


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* InsaneTrollLogic: Janet thinking that Lisa put a worm in her food makes zero sense considering the girl was at school.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Janet's entire screentime focuses on things about her, down to blaming Lisa for own distress. When Lisa explains that an intruder attacked her in the home while they were gone, Janet was more focused on her broken knick-knacks than Lisa's current state.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Janet is a horrid and conceited woman, her statements about Lisa's behavior does have weight.


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* MissingMom: Lisa's biological mother was murdere by an unknown killer a year before the events of the movie.
* MustNotDieAVirgin: Lisa bonds with the Creature one night about the concept of dying. She states that she herself is not afraid of death, but dreads the idea of dying without having had sex with someone she loves. Once it becomes clear that it will only be a matter of time before the police piece them together with Janet's death, she decides to throw caution to the wind, and go to meet her crush to have sex with him.


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* NiceGirl: Lisa's stepsister Tabby. Despite being the daughter of the uptight and narcissistic Janet, Tabby is a down-to-earth, friendly, and kind young girl who avoids falling into all classic 80s cliches in young teenagers. Lisa gives her a note saying that upon meeting her, she thought Tabby was going to be one of these, and was glad that she was wrong about her.


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* NotAfraidToDie: Lisa brings up that she is actually not afraid of death, but at the very least, she would not die as a virgin. [[spoiler: the end of the film shows her having sex with the creature, before getting into the tanning bed and instructing him to put on the high setting so that it kills her. She does not scream or make any sound as she burnt alive by the flaming tanning be]].
* OnlyFriend: Lisa's only real friend is Tabby.


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* PerkyGoth: Even after undergoing a darker outlook and appearance, Lisa remains very perky.
* PomPomGirl: Tabby is a member of the high school cheer squad.


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* TheQuietOne: Lisa is this. She is actually aware that she is, as she notices that she has said more in her conversation with the Creature than with anyone else.


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* SealedWithAKiss: Intending to lure Doug into the cemetary so she and the Creature can take his hand, Lisa writes a love letter to ask if he likes her before leaving a LipstickMark on the top of the letter.


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* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Lisa has a part time job working at a sewing shop.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: literally. After getting into the tanning bed at a high setting, Lisa roasts herself alive so she can be with the Creature forever. The final scene shows her now a resurrected zombie like the creature, wrapped in bandages while he reads to her]].


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* WouldHitAChild: Janet gets violent with Lisa when the girl finally starts standing up to her, going as far to slap her across the face for talking back to her.
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* PunBasedTitle: While the title does refer to Lisa and her ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''-adjacent escapades, it's also a portmanteau of ''Frankenstein'' and Creator/LisaFrank, an artist known for her hyper-cutesy aesthetic in the 1980s.

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* PunBasedTitle: While the title does refer to Lisa and her ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''-adjacent escapades, it's also a portmanteau of ''Frankenstein'' and Creator/LisaFrank, an artist known for her hyper-cutesy aesthetic in the 1980s.late 1980s and mid 1990s.

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* NiceGirl: Taffy while a tad bit condescending is otherwise incredibly sweet and is excited to have a father and sister in her life, going out of her way to help and protect the latter. Even [[spoiler: after the climax of the film which leaves her traumatized, she still mourns Lisa and brings flowers to her grave.]]


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* SpoiledSweet: Taffy, while a tad bit condescending, is otherwise incredibly sweet and is excited to have a new father and sister in her life, going out of her way to help and protect the latter. Even [[spoiler: after the climax of the film which leaves her traumatized, she still mourns Lisa and brings flowers to her grave.]]
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* HourglassPlot: [[spoiler:As The Creature becomes more human, Lisa becomes more violent and ruthless, culminating in The Creature becoming completely alive-looking again and regaining his voice around the time he resurrects a monstrous, voiceless Lisa.]]

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* NoNameGiven: "The Creature" is only ever credited as such, and Lisa never finds out his name or gives him one.

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* NoNameGiven: "The Creature" is only ever credited as such, and Lisa never finds out his name or gives him one. His gravestone at the beginning of the film indicates that he was named "Francis Owens".



* ParanormalRomance: Played with. While The Creature is interested in Lisa from the moment of resurrection, she insists that she doesn't reciprocate his feelings and has eyes for Michael. [[spoiler: She comes around to him eventually]].
* PunBasedTitle: While the title does refer to Lisa and her ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''-adjacent escapades, it's also a portmanteau of ''Frankenstein'' and Creator/LisaFrank, an artist known for her hyper-cutesy aesthetic in the 1980s.



* ParanormalRomance: Played with. While The Creature is interested in Lisa from the moment of resurrection, she insists that she doesn't reciprocate his feelings and has eyes for Michael. [[spoiler: She comes around to him eventually]].
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* OutlawCouple: The trailer shows Lisa and her zombie beau violently murder a man with an axe.

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* OutlawCouple: Of a sort. [[spoiler:Lisa and The trailer shows Creature are ultimately responsible for three murders, although Lisa and her zombie beau violently murder a man with is only an axe.active participant in one of them. In any case, she doesn't seem to mind too much.]]



* SharedUniverse: Diablo Cody declared that ''Lisa Frankenstein'' is set in the same universe as ''Film/JennifersBody''.
* Shout-Out: When Lisa's stepmother comes home early, she shouts [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow "Dammit! Janet!"]]

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* SharedUniverse: Diablo Cody declared that ''Lisa Frankenstein'' is set in the same universe as ''Film/JennifersBody''.
''Film/JennifersBody'', although the two films don't overlap in any way.
* Shout-Out: ShoutOut: When Lisa's stepmother comes home early, she shouts [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow "Dammit! Janet!"]]
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The Creature, especially once he starts to look more human. [[spoiler:By the very end of the film, however, he regains a normal human skintone.]]


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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Taffy and Lisa, respectively. The former is a bubbly, popular cheerleader, and the latter is a moody social outcast who loves horror movies and hangs out in a cemetery.
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*Shout-Out: When Lisa's stepmother comes home early, she shouts [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow "Dammit! Janet!"]]
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* The'80s: The movie takes place in 1989, and has a lot of shout-outs to 80's pop culture.

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* The'80s: TheEighties: The movie takes place in 1989, and has a lot of shout-outs to 80's pop culture.
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* The80's: The movie takes place in 1989, and has a lot of shout-outs to 80's pop culture.

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* The80's: The'80s: The movie takes place in 1989, and has a lot of shout-outs to 80's pop culture.
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*The80's: The movie takes place in 1989, and has a lot of shout-outs to 80's pop culture.


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* SuddenlyVoiced: [[spoiler: The Creature is shown in the final scene reading a poem to a resurrected Lisa, as well as appearing fully human again.]]
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* BMovie: An 80's themed one at that.
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* BrokenBird: Lisa at the beginning of the film. Witnessing her mother's death, being ostracized at her new school and enduring Janet's abuse have turned her into a withdrawn and deeply unhappy person. [[spoiler:She starts to get better as she befriends The Creature and confronts her fear of death.]]


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* LoveTriangle: The Creature is in love with Lisa, who has a crush on Michael instead. [[spoiler:Additionally, Lisa and Taffy have both been vying for the affections of Michael, who begins a secret relationship with the latter. This all ends with Lisa choosing The Creature after he kills Michael for her.]]


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* RuleOfThree: Lisa helps The Creature obtain three new body parts over the course of the film: [[spoiler:an ear from Janet, a hand from Doug and a penis + testicles from Michael.]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler:Taffy and Michael. It doesn't go well when they're finally discovered by Lisa and The Creature.]]
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The opening credits feature silhouette 2D animation telling the origin story of The Creature and how he initially died.


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* StarvingArtist: It's implied that in his original life, The Creature was an impoverished pianist.
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* NiceGirl: Taffy while a tad bit condescending is otherwise incredibly sweet and is excited to have a father and sister in her life, going out of her way to help and protect the latter. Even [[spoiler: after the climax of the film which leaves her traumatized, she still mourns Lisa and brings flowers to her grave.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Used frequently, most memorably [[Doug's death and The Creature severing Michael's penis.]]

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Used frequently, most memorably [[Doug's [[spoiler:Doug's death and The Creature severing Michael's penis.]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Trailers and posters for the film imply that Lisa falls for The Creature instantly and is trying to "build a perfect boyfriend" by killing people and stealing their body parts to attach them to him. While The Creature is in love with her from the moment of resurrection, she is justifiably disgusted with the idea of being romantically involved with a rotten, smelly corpse. The "killing and stealing the body parts" plot has little to do with romantic attachment and more to do with disposing of people who have wronged her while also making The Creature she has befriended whole. [[spoiler:They do eventually fall in love, but only after additional trips to the tanning bed result in him becoming much closer to a traditional human in terms of looks and mannerisms.]]

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** [[spoiler:Lisa's classmate Doug, who tried to hook up with her while she was inebriated, loses his right arm and then takes an axe to the back.]]

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** [[spoiler:Lisa's classmate Doug, who tried to hook up with groped her while she was inebriated, inebriated and attempted to date rape her, loses his right arm and then takes an axe before he is murdered by The Creature with Lisa's aid.]]
* BackFromTheDead: The Creature, though he's missing a few parts. [[spoiler:He gets progressively better with additional trips
to the back.tanning bed. The same happens to Lisa in the end.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Doug is a pleasant nerdy film buff who comes to Lisa's aid when she accidentally takes a hallucinogen [[spoiler:so he can grope and attempt to date rape her.
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* BlackComedy: Loads of it.


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* GoryDiscretionShot: Used frequently, most memorably [[Doug's death and The Creature severing Michael's penis.]]


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* ParanormalRomance: Played with. While The Creature is interested in Lisa from the moment of resurrection, she insists that she doesn't reciprocate his feelings and has eyes for Michael. [[spoiler: She comes around to him eventually]].
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''Lisa Frankenstein'' is a 2024 romantic horror black comedy film written by Creator/DiabloCody and directed by Creator/ZeldaWilliams in her feature-length directorial debut. It stars Creator/KathrynNewton, Creator/ColeSprouse, Liza Soberano, Creator/JoeChrest, and Creator/CarlaGugino.

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''Lisa Frankenstein'' is a 2024 romantic horror black comedy film written by Creator/DiabloCody and directed by Creator/ZeldaWilliams in her feature-length directorial debut. It stars Creator/KathrynNewton, Creator/ColeSprouse, Liza Soberano, Creator/JoeChrest, and Creator/CarlaGugino.


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* SharedUniverse: Diablo Cody declared that ''Lisa Frankenstein'' is set in the same universe as ''Film/JennifersBody''.

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Newton plays Lisa, a lonely, troubled girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse (Sprouse) and embarks with him on a murderous misadventure of romance and missing body parts. The film will release February 9, 2024.

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Newton plays Lisa, a lonely, troubled girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse (Sprouse) and embarks with him on a murderous misadventure of romance and missing body parts. The film will release was released February 9, 2024.
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:The Creature severs Michael’s whole groin with the axe and has Lisa attach it to his own body so that they can have sex.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Doug gets his right arm severed by The Creature before getting killed altogether.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler:Janet was extremely nasty and condescending to Lisa, and also threatened to send her to reform school after striking her in the face. Unsurprisingly, Janet is The Creature's first victim.]]
** [[spoiler:Lisa's classmate Doug, who tried to hook up with her while she was inebriated, loses his right arm and then takes an axe to the back.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lisa has The Creature fry her to death in the broken tanning bed where she conducts her experiments on him after the police come close to implicating her in the murders. Dale and Taffy mourn Lisa, but The Creature is shown to have resurrected her so that they may continue their romance.]]


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* NoNameGiven: "The Creature" is only ever credited as such, and Lisa never finds out his name or gives him one.


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* WickedStepmother: Janet, who married Lisa's father after the murder of her mother, is nothing but rotten to Lisa and sees her as the cause of many problems.
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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/bvI3F95w8ns?si=WAF6O0WNadE6egkm Teaser]]

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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/bvI3F95w8ns?si=WAF6O0WNadE6egkm Teaser]]Teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/POOeA3zCuUY Trailer]]
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* OutlawCouple: The trailer shows the girl and her zombie beau violently murder a man with an axe.

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* OutlawCouple: The trailer shows the girl Lisa and her zombie beau violently murder a man with an axe.
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Newton plays Lisa, a lonely, troubled girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse (Sprouse) and embarks with him on a murderous misadventure of romance and missing body parts. The film will release February 9, 2023.

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Newton plays Lisa, a lonely, troubled girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse (Sprouse) and embarks with him on a murderous misadventure of romance and missing body parts. The film will release February 9, 2023.
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* BoyMeetsGhoul: As the trailer presents, the film is about a girl romancing a zombie boy.
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer proclaims the film as being from Diablo Cody, “Acclaimed writer of ''Film/JennifersBody''”.

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''Lisa Frankenstein'' is a 2024 romantic horror black comedy film written by Creator/DiabloCody and directed by Creator/ZeldaWilliams in her

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''Lisa Frankenstein'' is a 2024 romantic horror black comedy film written by Creator/DiabloCody and directed by Creator/ZeldaWilliams in herher feature-length directorial debut. It stars Creator/KathrynNewton, Creator/ColeSprouse, Liza Soberano, Creator/JoeChrest, and Creator/CarlaGugino.

Newton plays Lisa, a lonely, troubled girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse (Sprouse) and embarks with him on a murderous misadventure of romance and missing body parts. The film will release February 9, 2023.

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/bvI3F95w8ns?si=WAF6O0WNadE6egkm Teaser]]
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