Mr. Story’s sense of restraint is acute, the suggestion of dread being as awful as the overtly dreadful.

Numerous writers use spare parts from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story to assemble something patchwork for their purposes. Few, however, have done it as seamlessly as writer and director Bomani J. Story.

This is a very promising debut... Because it is so good, I got very disappointed when it loses a lot of steam in the end.

Laya DeLeon Hayes as Vicaria is electric as the tortured yet determined creator and the film itself is an incredible interpretation and modernisation of a gothic work from over 300 years ago