New 'Frankenstein' Will Be No Horror Flick, Del Toro Says

Guillermo del Toro Says He's 'Not Doing a Horror Movie' With Frankenstein: 'It's an Emotional Story For Me'

If you were expecting scares from Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein film, it’s time to temper your expectations. In fact, according to the man himself, this is far from a horror movie — it’s an “emotional story.” “Somebody asked me the other day, does it have really scary scenes?” del Toro explained during a Cannes Film Festival conversation with composer Alexandre Desplat. “For the first time, I considered that. It’s an emotional story…

Guillermo del Toro and Alexandre Desplat, two brilliant artists who have marked contemporary cinema with their great talents and who on several occasions have come together especially in the field of fantastic cinema to enhance this genre of seventh art, gave this Sunday a masterful lesson in music at the Cannes Film Festival.

New 'Frankenstein' will be no horror flick, Del Toro says

Triple Oscar winning director Guillermo del Toro said his new version of "Frankenstein" will not be a horror film, but will instead pack a high-voltage emotional punch.

Guillermo del Toro says his Frankenstein adaptation is not a ‘horror film’

Director says his film is more of an ‘emotional story’

Guillermo del Toro Teases ‘Incredibly Emotional’ ‘Frankenstein’ at Cannes: ‘I’m Not Doing a Horror Movie’

Guillermo del Toro and composer Alexandre Desplat shared details about their 'emotional' approach to making 'Frankenstein' at Cannes.

On the occasion of the publication of an anthology dedicated to the British author, we go back to the origins of this creature born of a night of storm and romantic anxieties of the nineteenth century. A gothic journey between science, solitude and monstrosity with Hélène Frappat and François Rivière.