I like found footage films, and I judge them less harshly than other film genres because usually the filmmakers have less experience and resources than their better financed major Hollywood counterparts. I judge them based on how long the film can hold my interest before I get distracted. The Frankenstein Theory had my complete and undivided attention for one hour, which isn’t bad for an 87 minute film. I think with a few script tweaks, The Frankenstein Theory would have been a solid movie. I liked the premise: the real story behind the fictional Frankenstein and his abomination creation. I actually watch real documentaries with this same premise: a descendant of a famous person who made some epic, tragic and ultimately fatal mistake decides to explores their ancestor’s past. When I watch these documentaries, I usually scream at the screen, “Why would you do this?!? You can die too.” Fortunately in the real documentaries they don’t. I liked the characters, especially the production crew. Normally I would just write them off as comedic relief or a focal point for the viewer to relate to, which they were, but the actors were hilarious and convincing as they said exactly what I was thinking. Basically the characters were likable, normal guys with an occasionally goofy, cheesy sense of humor. You really need a realistic response and palate cleanser during movies with insane premises if the story is going to move forward, which was my main problem with Afflicted. The Frankenstein Theory effectively imbued life into its tropes, including the obligatory intimidating wilderness guide. The Frankenstein Theory lost my attention because the creation is set up to be one thing and ends up more boring and less clever than we were led to believe. The last half hour is just going through the motions. Still I would say it is worth a viewing if you like the found footage genre. Possible spoiler question:

So some people think that the creation purposely kills all the men and only knocks out the director, the only female on the trip, because he wants a mate. I think that he threw her around with too much force to live, killed her too and just throws her over his shoulder like a doll because of her hair. I think that if he has been killing people ALL this time, this is not his first encounter with a woman so if he wanted a mate, he could have done that ages ago and repeatedly. Or maybe he has and that is who was missing, but then the script should have emphasized whether or not past missing and killed were men and/or women. Oh well, the creation was set up to be capable of reason, but really he was just hulk, smash, stop touching my doll and living in my house. Even the way that he killed them didn’t seem particularly clever or well thought out. And how did he end up in Canada? I guess that the creation left the Arctic Circle and migrated there. The creation was anticlimactic and the weakest part of the story. Also points taken away for random, foreboding scary angry large black guy.