Guillermo del Toro’s been talking about it since his 1992 feature debut, Cronos . He’s been dreaming of it since 1971, when, aged seven, he first saw Boris Karloff shamble through James Whale’s 1931 masterpiece . And now he’s finally done it — adapted Mary Shelley’s incredibly influential 1818 Gothic novel about a scientist playing God (with hellish results) into his very own Frankenstein movie.

Beginning in the Arctic, as the crew of a ship frozen in ice encounter Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) and the raging Creature (Jacob Elordi) that’s pursued him to the end of the earth, we learn of the terrible preceding events: Victor’s cold upbringing under a disciplinarian father (Charles Dance) after the death of his beloved mother (Mia Goth); his entry into the medical profession

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