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The official key art has been released for The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the film reinvents the mad scientist story, following a brilliant teenager who believes she can bring her slain brother back to life using her wits and gadgetry. It works, but at what cost? The movie will be released on June 9, and before then, you can get another tease of the film by viewing the official key art below.
Bomani J. Story wrote and directed the film, also serving as a producer alongside Jack Davis and Darren Brandl. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster stars Laya DeLeon Hayes (Doc McStuffins, The Equalizer), Denzel Whitaker (The Purge, Cut Throat City), Chad L. Coleman (Superman & Lois, The Walking Dead), Reilly Brooke Stith (Orange Is the New Black, The Crooked Man), and Keith Holliday (A Brother’s Turmoil, Atlanta).
The official synopsis for the movie is as follows:
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER thematically challenges our ideas of life and death. Bomani J. Story, the film’s writer and director, crafts a thrilling tale about a family that, despite the terrors of systemic pressure, will survive and be reborn again.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Gets Reimagined
Story spoke about putting the movie together in a previous interview at MovieWeb. The filmmaker mentioned how she was particularly fascinated by young Victor Frankenstein’s story, before he eventually evolves into the experienced mad scientist he’s best known as. That period of time in Victor’s life helped serve as a big part of the inspiration for the lead in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster.
“One of the things about Victor that people kind of skip over, is at the very beginning of his genesis,” Story explained to us. “He loses his mom and all these people at a very young age, and with the destruction of his family, I was just like — this just makes complete sense to me, because of these systemic pressures that are twisting my community in so many different ways, just like the story. It just made complete sense for it to kind of be told, or at least inspired by and reformatted, for our times, for today.”
Intrigued by the modern spin Story puts on the classic horror tale, Hayes added, “Just to be able to take a classic tale and put a very modern twist on it, and put a lead Black girl in the middle of it, that was very fascinating and fresh to me, and something that I wanted to dive into.”
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster will be released in theaters, on VOD, and on Digital on June 9, 2023, courtesy of RLJE Films. Watch the trailer below.
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