By Hannah Hunt
#10 DEPRAVED
Larry Fessenden’s modern interpretation relocates Frankenstein to contemporary Brooklyn, grounding the story in trauma, medical experimentation, and psychological fracture. The Creature’s development is slow and methodical, and the film pays close attention to how identity forms under the influence of others. His creator, a former military medic, is driven by a cocktail of idealism, guilt, and ambition, mirroring modern anxieties about technological overreach and moral clarity. Fessenden’s choice to focus on the Creature’s fragmented memories adds a raw immediacy to his struggle for selfhood. Depraved is intimate and unsettling, proving that Shelley’s questions about responsibility and the human cost of creation remain as urgent now as they were two centuries ago.
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