Throughout his career, Guillermo del Toro has made a history of proving that it is the monster who is good and it is men who are evil. Here he returns with Frankenstein – perhaps what he was building towards his entire career – the ultimate example of this narrative. All the heart and soul is poured into this gothic epic; lavish and ultimately spellbinding. We open on a boat stranded in the ice in the far north; a wounded man and a mysterious figure that cannot be cowed by guns or any mortal weapon. The man – Doctor Victor Frankenstein – has a story to tell – of the monster he created and enslaved and the power that drove him made.

This is the film that pours all the same and guilt into Frankenstein’s creation – we watch as he sees himself corrupted in the idea of cheating death. The lo

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