Guillermo del Toro isn’t the only filmmaker with a take on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein’s monster tale this Halloween season. Enter “Stitch Head,” an animated film from British animation studio Aniventure, written and directed by Steve Hudson, adapted from the Guy Bass graphic novel.

Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” may be the most faithful and frightening adaptation of Shelley’s book, but “Stitch Head” proves that there are lessons of all kinds — and for all ages — to be wrung from that text. It’s actually quite remarkable, the social commentary that Hudson elicits from this charming, but slight, spookfest for kids.

Welcome to the village of Grubber Nubbin, where a traveling circus freak show is finding no purchase with the locals, who know that the real terrors reside in Castle Grottes

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