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The Frankenstein Theory2013

Name: The Frankenstein Theory
Genre: Found Footage, Monster & Creature, Sci-Fi Horror, Classic Monsters
Released: 2013-03-01
Rating: 4.6

Directed by Andrew Weiner

4.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 4.3TMDB 4.4

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Year

2013

Runtime

87 min

The premise

When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Horror Vault's take

A disgraced professor bets his entire career on a radical claim: that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was not fiction but a thinly veiled account of something real. Armed with a documentary crew and a one-way ticket to the Arctic wilderness, he pushes his team deeper into a frozen, unforgiving landscape in pursuit of proof. The found-footage format keeps the threat lurking just beyond the frame, letting paranoia and bone-deep cold do as much work as any monster. What the expedition discovers challenges the line between legend and living nightmare.

Content: Violence, Threat Of Creature Attack, Intense Peril In Extreme Environments