I, Frankenstein is having a disastrous debut. It was expected to have an $11 to $14 million opening weekend, but it appears the film will fall short of even those low estimates, with $7.75 million.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was not on the reading list in my high school, and I managed to escape any kind of English class in college. So my only knowledge of Frankenstein is pretty much based ...