New trailer for Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe’s Frankenstein-inspired film POOR THINGS

Searchlight Pictures has released a new full trailer for Poor thingswhich is a re-imagining of the classic Frankenstein history. The film comes from the writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite,The slaying of a sacred deer, Dogtooth), and recites Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, AND Mark Ruffalo.

It looks like a very interesting and unique film, and I particularly like the fantastic visual style of the story. In that story, Stone plays a woman who was brought back to life by a Dr. Frankenstein-like character played by Dafoe.

This film is based on the 1992 novel by Alistair Gray, and in the story, “the incredible story and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she lacks in her, she Bella runs away with Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), a shrewd and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across continents. Freed from the prejudices of her day, Bella becomes steadfast in her resolve to stand up for equality and liberation.

Baxter’s character is brought back to life after his brain is replaced with that of his unborn child, which takes the whole thing to a wild level of weirdness.

Stone recently sat down with W Magazine to talk about the film and said, “My character Bella is a bit of a Frankenstein, but she’s also a bit of an experiment in the sense that everything is happening very quickly on her. So her hair grows about two inches every couple of days. It had to grow faster and faster because that’s what happened in the book.”

Poor things even stars Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher AbbotAND Mark Ruffalo. The film will only be released in theaters on September 8, 2023. The film is rated “R” for “Strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore and language.”