Haley Joel Osment is returning to the genre that helped score him an Oscar nomination in 2000. The now 23-year-old star of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense has signed on to headline Slasher Films’ Wake the Dead, a modern day retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story.

Osment will play the role of Victor Franklin, a college student attempting to raise the dead through a series of experiments. Jay Russell will serve as director on the project which is based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles.

Wake the Dead is just one of many Frankenstein adaptations being produced in tinsel town. While this one sounds pretty cool, I doubt it will come close to Frank Henenlotter’s genius take on the tale—the 1990 horror-comedy Frankenhooker.

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