Frank wants a companion after a century alone. The woman they raise was murdered first. A love that begins by taking a body is not lonely in a way that excuses it. She refuses to be only his, which is the human fact, and the film then sends them out as a pair the country has to survive. Independence that becomes a rampage has not become freedom.

Shelley's creature was a moral problem about a maker. This picture is a gothic romance with a gun. Adults may argue with it. Do not let the poster, or the exclamation point, tell a young person that being unmade and remade for someone else is a love story.