Zelda Williams has wonderful memories of being on film sets as a kid, watching her father, Robin Williams, shoot movies like Hook and Bicentennial Man. But that doesn’t mean she inherited his bombastic sense of humor. “I’m a bit darker,” says Williams, 34. “I’m the person who laughed during Hereditary.”
Williams is putting those dark impulses on full display in her feature directorial debut, Lisa Frankenstein, in theaters Feb. 9. Written by Diablo Cody, the film is an Eighties retelling of the Mary Shelley classic (think less chemistry experiments, more Echo and the Bunnymen). It follows a high school outcast (Kathryn Newton) in the Chicago suburbs who recently witnessed her mom get killed by an ax murderer. When she’s not pissing off her evil new stepmom (an awesomely villainous Carla Gugino), she accidentally brings a hot Victorian corpse (Cole Sprouse) back from the dead. Normal stuff.
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