In Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into the much filmed story of Frankenstein.
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a monstrous creature to life in a daring experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Guillermo del Toro's adaptation is based on Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus, first published anonymously in 1818.
- Universal's Frankenstein (1931)
- Hammer Films' The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Mary Shelley's novel has been a genre-defining tale of a mad scientist's desire to create life from the dead and his creation's feelings of loneliness and rage.
Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into the much filmed story of Frankenstein, the genre defining tale of one mad scientist’s desire to create life from the dead and his creation’s feelings of loneliness and rage when its creator rejects him, and it learns its origins.
Author's summary: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein review.