After watching Hammer of the Gods, I proceeded to watch I, Frankenstein, a good move to temper the overly violent and gory HoG. This Frankenstein movie is a must-see, especially if you like anything related to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is one of those classic novels I read and loved as a child. Together with Bram Stoker's Dracula, Frankenstein has always been of interest to me and I would gladly watch or read anything related to the two. And in I, Frankenstein, vampire-looking demons and the monster meet each other together with another beloved creature, those mysterious gargoyles!
The movie is a spin-off of the popular Frankenstein story where the monster killed Victor Frankenstein's bride and ran off to be followed by its creator who died in the cold. As the monster was burying his creator, a group of demons attacked him and it seems like they want to kidnap him for the demon Prince Naberius but he was saved by a two gargoyles who brought him to their cathedral where the Gargoyle Order resides. It was such a visual feast whenever the gargoyles appear in action and more so when they ascend or when they cause the demons to descend especially in Cologne Cathedral (OMG!!!) and the movie has plenty of these scenes. So anyway, the monster was renamed Adam by the Gargoyle Queen Leonore. Unwilling to choose sides in the war between the gargoyles and the demons, Adam opted to live and wander alone. Frankenstein's notebook ended up in the vault of the cathedral under the care of the gargoyles.
Two hundred years later, Adam is again caught in the war as science progresses and scientists funded by Prince Naberius are close to success in replicating Victor Frankenstein's experiments. They only needed either the monster or the notes to finally get it right so they attacked the cathedral and kidnapped the queen. In exchange for the queen, Gideon, one of the senior gargoyles, took out the notebook to give up to the demons, but Adam appeared and was able to retrieve it. He meets a beautiful scientist named Terra who works under Naberius and warns her of the evil plan to animate corpses so they can be possessed by fallen demons. When Terra's fellow scientist Carl was killed by Naberius' men, she reinitiated the experiment in a bid to revive Carl. As this happens, Adam leads the gargoyles to the demons' place and another battle ensues. Naberius, thinking that Adam is soulless, prepares his body for a fallen demon but was surprised to find that Adam indeed has a soul and is immune to demon possession. The gargoyles are meanwhile hard at work battling the demons and destroying the corpse laboratory. In the end, Leonore saves Adam and Terra from the crumbling palace.
This movie makes me rethink how everything starts out neutral and we define something as good or bad based on how such things either benefit or harm us. Every time I encounter something bad, I just try to find the good in it. It helps to keep a positive outlook in life as the world is already shrouded in darkness and a happy person is sometimes what we need to light up the world. (But in reality I cry almost every night missing the persons I love.)
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