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Depraved is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Larry Fessenden and starring David Call and Joshua Leonard. It is a modern version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Depraved: Directed by Larry Fessenden. With David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Cruz Kayne. A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
Features. General. ‘Depraved’ Review: Larry Fessenden’s No-Budget Delight Brings Frankenstein into the 21st Century. Indie horror maestro Larry Fessenden refashions Mary Shelley's...
Published Dec 8, 2019. Warning! SPOILERS for Depraved ahead. Depraved weaves a hauntingly beautiful version of Mary Shelley 's classic Frankenstein tale from director Larry Fessenden that explores PTSD, the American military, capitalist greed, and the importance of companionship in an unforgiving world.
Depraved is an adaptation of the Frankenstein story, largely from the monster’s point of view, and it opens with a scene that shows where his brain was obtained from. I asked how a writer decides where to start a story: this one could have started with the doctor’s research, with his inspiration for it, or indeed at almost any point.
According to Larry Fessenden’s Depraved, he’s a guy with war-addled, once-noble intentions set adrift by male ego and shady benefactors. He’s a white man grasping for control in a world coming apart, a cog in a machine who hasn’t broken free so much as changed the machine’s function—from that of war to that of the pharmaceutical ...
American indie horror king Larry Fessenden (“The Last Winter,” “ Wendigo ”) is just as much a pulp fiction aficionado as he is a neo-gothic romantic: his doomed heroes and sorrowful monsters are all messy, small people whose apparent sense of compassion is often dwarfed by their titanic egos and their general cosmic insignificance.
