‘Poor Things’ Review: A Beautiful, Sex-Crazed Frankenstein’s Monster

A pregnant woman kills herself and her unborn child by jumping from a bridge. A Frankenstein-esque doctor then takes the brain from her child and puts it into her skull, bringing his creation to life. That’s the starting premise of Poor Things, a movie by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, based on the Scottish writer Alisdair Gray’s 1992 novel by the same name.

Hooked? Wait: It gets weirder.

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A pregnant woman kills herself and her unborn child by jumping from a bridge. A Frankenstein-esque doctor then takes the brain from her child and puts it into her skull, bringing his creation to life. That’s the starting premise of Poor Things, a movie by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, based on the Scottish writer Alisdair Gray’s 1992 novel by the same name.

Hooked? Wait: It gets weirder.