End Credits #337 - April 17, 2024 (Lisa Frankenstein)

Guelph Politicast

This week on End Credits, we're going to raise the dead. Sounds serious, but it's not. It's funny! Our main review this week was thought dead on arrival when it was released in theatres earlier this year, but all movies can live again on VOD and today we're going to see if there's some life left in Lisa Frankenstein. As for the rest of the show, we go full zombie with a modern classic!

This Wednesday, April 17, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Candice Lepage will discuss:

Shaun of the Dead at 20. In 2004, Edgar Wright did something remarkable: He made a zombie movie that was funny. Forget that this was a time when the business wasn't making a lot of zombie movies, the idea of taking the trappings of that genre and making it a laugh? Impossible! Well, Wright proved them wrong, and on the 20th anniversary of Shaun of the Dead's U.K. release, we will talk about why the movie still slaps after two decades of zombie overkill.

REVIEW: Lisa Frankenstein (2024). The year is 1989 and Lisa is not like the other girls. Her mom was killed by an axe murderer (no, really), she's been wedged into a new family where she sticks out even more, and she's more than little into the morbid side of life doing things like hanging out in a graveyard. And that's where true love finds her! From the mind of Jennifer's Body scribe Diablo Cody, Lisa Frankenstein combines 1980s excess and 1800s excess in a unique package, and this week we'll determine if it's the can't miss movie we missed.

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.