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Frankenstein, the creature that eventually received the name of its creator, and that emerged from Mary Shelley’s mind in the early 19th century, at the dawn of the Victorian era, received hundreds of adaptations, from film to comic, from television to pop songs. In all of them, the common denominator is grotesque. The creature is a monster. It may not be surprising that Guillermo del Toro is the first to want to remove the creation from the bas…
It makes perfect sense that Mexican Guillermo del Toro is directing the new version of "Frankenstein." It's a Netflix production of the rare ones that are allowed to...
Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein' : Fresh Air
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of it. But when del Toro saw the 1931 film Frankenstein, his life changed. "I realized I understood my faith or my dogmas better through Frankenstein than through Sunday mass." His new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic book drops on Netflix Nov. 7. He spoke …
The lush monster saga "Frankenstein" starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi looks exactly as you'd expect the film's horror-romantic witch master to look. But Sebastian Lindvall is still disappointed.
Oscar Isaac’s Frankenstein Brings His First Creation to Life in Haunting New Clip from Guillermo del Toro’s Adaptation
Netflix released a new clip Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, and it’s as eerie and mesmerizing as you’d expect. The clip was introduced by Oscar Isaac during his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, giving audiences their first real taste of Victor Frankenstein’s early experiments with reanimation.The scene shows Victor revealing his “Proto-Creature” to a skeptical group of colleagues. The experiment is a grote…
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is missing a spark of life
Frankenstein. // Courtesy Netflix Guillermo del Toro knows as well as anyone that adaptation is an art unto itself. Frankenstein is his third film in a row adapting an existing work of literature that’s also been interpreted onscreen before. The anticipation that accompanies an auteur like del Toro adapting anything—whether it’s William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley, Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
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