British actor Boris Karloff is seen in his trademark role as the monster of Frankenstein in this 1947 photograph. In my last column, I discussed the evolution of the cinematic vampire, from silent ...

There aren’t many fictional characters who have appeared in more movies than the Frankenstein Monster. Dracula, certainly, and probably Sherlock Holmes, but he’s right near the top of the list, that’s ...

This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises once more, summoned this time by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro. But green-skinned, bolt-necked and flat-skulled he is not. In fact, the monster — who ...