Frankenstein coming in 2 styles

Mary Shelley's monster will get a chance to live in two very different worlds.
By FRAZIER MOORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Not one, but two new Frankensteins are on the loose. And they come in two distinctive styles: Contemporary and Traditional.
At 9 p.m. Sunday, USA network's "Frankenstein" stars Parker Posey as a plucky New Orleans detective investigating a series of gruesome murders that eventually lead to one Dr. Victor Helios (Thomas Kretschmann), who, now two centuries old, has a newfangled plan for manufacturing a master race to take over the world. Her unlikely ally in thwarting this plot: the doctor's original monstrous creation (Vincent Perez).
Michael Madsen also stars in this stylish two-hour film, which is most distinguished by the presence of the always-appealing Posey.
Classical version
But for viewers who like their "Frankenstein" more classical, Hallmark Channel presents an original miniseries it bills as the most faithful cinematic adaptation yet of Mary Shelley's macabre novel.
Airing Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 p.m., this "Frankenstein" rolls back the clock to Switzerland in the late 1700s, where Viktor Frankenstein, a brash young scientist, gets the hankering to unlock divine secrets of life and death.
He succeeds. Severed limbs and torsos stolen from a morgue are stitched together, then jolted into consciousness by a bolt of electricity. But for Frankenstein (Alec Newman) and his Creature (Luke Goss), things will only go downhill from there.
Also starring in this lush production are William Hurt as Frankenstein's professor-mentor and Donald Sutherland as the captain who rescues Frankenstein in the frozen Arctic and hears his terrifying tale.