Warning: This post contains spoilers for Frankenstein .

"Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity, but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me."

If you had to sum up the overarching thesis of writer-director Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film with one line from Mary Shelley's seminal 1818 novel, the above quote would certainly be a worthy candidate. Considering del Toro has made a career of subverting the idea that monsters are inherently villainous—think previous offerings like Pan's Labyrinth and Best Picture winner The Shape of Water —and has described the so-called Creature from Shelley's gothic horror classic a

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