It wouldn’t tiktok well
I think there would be ways - not so much by making the monster scary, more by focussing on the existential dread and rejection in visceral ways. Basically less jump scares and more philosophical gore.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So write it from the monsters perspective? Isn’t that the point of the original? That people are the monsters?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Doesn’t have to be the monsters perspective (though that could work). It just has to empathize with it - show the horror of being made of constituent parts that neither fit nor really work together, the awareness of its own broken and blasphemous existence. The wish for a real attempt at life that can never be fulfilled, and the fear of death that its body remembers and longs for.
Could be a neat allegory for the unnatural lives of modern society!
P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh I like that idea a lot.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
The original is from the perspective of a younger guy on an expedition for glory, who runs into Frankenstein, who tells his story, which includes his monster, who then tells their story.