More than once, incensed characters accuse the mad doctor of being the true “monster” in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” — not to be confused with Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” even though this ...

Oscar Isaac’s latest Netflix film, Frankenstein, has garnered strong praise from critics and a high Rotten Tomatoes score. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the movie is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ...

As film adaptations go, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has seen a lot of variety. From Thomas Edison’s (yes, that Thomas Edison) production in 1910 that ran 16 minutes long, to the Netflix-produced, ...

It's difficult to think of a story Hollywood has revisited more than "Frankenstein." There have been dozens of film adaptations, yet none can top the 1931 classic that made Boris Karloff a star. So do ...

While del Toro keeps most of the source material intact, he adds a realistic touch to the film by telling the story through the lens of a father and his child. Victor Frankenstein (Isaac) wasn’t ...

With ‘Frankenstein,’ Guillermo del Toro has not just summed up his career to date, but created a definitive adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic. Guillermo del Toro has been waiting to adapt ...

It was surely inevitable that Guillermo del Toro, that master of creatures and monsters and Gothic gorgeousness (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Shape of Water,” “Crimson Peak”), would one day take on the ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT In the mid-19th century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) embarks on a mission to reinvigorate inanimate tissue — that is, to bring the dead back to life. Exiled from England’s ...