#tabgahm

[spacecasehobbit]

Thinking about The Angry Black Girl and her Monster, again, and how one of the pure storytelling elements I appreciated the most was their willingness to lean on the framework already provided by Frankenstein to avoid rehashing a story about the 'monster' that most of their audience would already know.

Because they didn't rehash the part of the story that wasn't really changed from the original (the part where the 'monster' is really just scared, lost, and reacting to other peoples' fear and violence, rather than being inherently a violent monster), it gave the movie more space to focus instead on the part of the movie they changed (turning Victor Frankenstein the generic old white guy mad scientist into Vicaria Frankenstein, the brilliant young black girl science prodigy who is also deeply traumatized by the systemic marginalization and violence that she and her community face because of the color of their skin and by the personal losses she has faced as a result of systemic violence).

The fact that we could lean on the original Frankenstein narrative for characterization of her brother means that the story could craft a much deeper and tighter narrative around Vicaria, and I just -

This is what remakes and adaptations should be! Not an ever so slightly altered copy/paste of the original with updated CGI or some modern references, but a way to use the original story as a framework/jumping off point to tell a new story with some of the groundwork already laid.

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the next top two horror girlies get into it

[nekkotheodd]

31 days of Horror - Fresh Enough List: Day 8 - The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)

This title may keep a few people from watching this gem of a flick. Almost stopped me. Let me tell you don't let it. The movie is great and deserves all the eyes it can get. TABGAHM (too long to keep typing) is a social commentary horror but not the way you probably expect. It's about racism but it's the boiling pot of cycles of violence in an urban community. Death is a disease and if it is a disease that there much be a cure. Our lead wants to find it and so we have frankenstein in the ghetto and it turns out lovely. And it's a pretty good retelling of the Shelly classic. The tone is a bit like Tales from the Hood which is great as i think that is the gold standard for more modern urban horror movies. Again it doesn't heavy hand the subject matter but you can clearly see that it is present and how suffocating it can be. The budget is the weakest part of the movie but that just lends to the fantastic character moments of the movie. Our lead and everybody around her have layers and it is enjoyable to see those layers. You can find it on Shudder (just sponsor me already).

[sistahscifi]

Question, and be honest, would you watch The Angry Black and Her Monster with @SistahScifi?

Reposted @millennial.pr THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER written and directed by visionary filmmaker @story.is.king starring laya de leon hayes. It's Frankenstein retold through the lense of gun violence, race, and gender. She has a hypothesis that could cure death, and won't stop until she has resurrected her brother no matter the cost. This film is soon to join Get Out, Candy Man, and The Girl with All the Gifts as a modern classic in the genre of Black Horror.

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#theangryblackgirlandhermonster #TABGAHM @shudder @watchallblk #bomanijstory #frankenstein #layadeleonhayes #sistahscifi #blackhorror

(Did you recognize Laya from @TheEqualizerCBS as @QueenLatifah 's daughter?!?!)

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[spacecasehobbit]

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is such a good adaptation of Frankenstein and a really well done horror movie, too.

The movie did a really good job leaning on audience knowledge of Frankenstein's monster (that he's not really a monster, just scared and confused and reacting to other peoples' fear and violence) to build tragedy and empathy into Vicaria's 'monster' from the start, without needing to spend a bunch of time on retelling the part of the story that most of the audience would already be familiar with. And I appreciated how that allowed the movie to focus more time on telling Vicaria's story, as her story is the one that diverges in an interesting and new way from the original Frankenstein.

And props to the movie for the subtle hint that Vicaria's last name is Frankenstein during the parent-teacher meeting at her school. Almost missed that detail when I first watched it, which seemed fairly intentional on the writer's part and makes me wonder what other little easter eggs I might be able to catch on a rewatch.

I really enjoyed the way the movie played with the trope of the frightening little girl in a horror movie. The little kid wasn't scary because she was a supernatural entity or possessed or anything. She was just a little girl who wasn't old enough to understand why other people might find certain things scary, which gave her a far more terrifying nonchalance in certain scenes than the movie would have achieved if she'd been actively trying to be frightening.

Before I watched it, I read a few reviews online suggesting that the movie falls flatter in the last act. I didn't find that to be the case at all, though. I thought the twists towards the end were well done, fit with the tone and themes of the rest of the movie, and made for a pretty perfect frightening, tragic, and then very creepy final act.