Set in the same universe as Jennifer's Body, Zelda Williams' feature-length debut is written and co-produced by Diablo Cody.
Title is a play on graphic design company Lisa Frank and a certain Mary Shelley novel.
Kathryn Newton - Lisa Swallows
Cole Sprouse - The Creature
Liza Soberano - Taffy
Henry Eikenberry - Michael Trent
Joe Chrest - Dale
Carla Gugino - Janet
Summary
Film takes place in 1989.
Still reeling over the recent murder of her mother, awkward 18-year-old Lisa Swallows spends an unhealthy amount of time at Bachelors Cemetery Grove, expressing her desire to be with a young Victorian man who died in 1837.
After a party, (where she's drugged and sexually assaulted), Lisa visits geezer's grave again and learns from the news that the man's bust was struck by lightning.
The following night, The Creature breaks into her house. Lisa is initially terrified, but she decides to hide lovesick zombie inside her bedroom closet.
Friendship blossoms, and Lisa helps mute corpse acquire missing body parts.
A Trip to the Moon
While unashamedly Heathers, Edward Scissorhands and Warm Bodies, quirky romance is sweet, visually appealing and sporadically gory.
Just in case shit went unnoticed, Lisa's gothic wardrobe was modelled on Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.
Screenplay may be light on laughs, but sequence of Creature using axe to deprive Michael (Lisa's teenage crush) of his genitalia was pretty funny.
Lisa attaches meat and two veg to Creature's groin so they can have sex.
Ending leaves door open for another and if Megan Fox enters the fray - that could be awesome.
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