Oscar-winning Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has birthed a monster with his new big-budget "Frankenstein" movie and joked Saturday that the effort had left him worn out ahead of the world premiere in Venice.

The Hollywood version of the Mary Shelley masterpiece from Del Toro -- winner of the 2018 best picture Oscar for "The Shape of Water" -- is an elaborate, evocative production the director said he's been dreaming about making since he was a child.

"I've been following the creature since I was a kid," the director told a press conference at the Venice Film Festival ahead of the premiere.

"I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively and in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you c

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