WHAT IT’S ABOUT In the mid-19th century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) embarks on a mission to reinvigorate inanimate tissue — that is, to bring the dead back to life. Exiled from England’s medical community for his experiments, Victor nevertheless assembles chunks of corpses into a whole body and jolts it to life. But when this new Creature (Jacob Elordi, "Priscilla") and his creator turn against each other, they set off a chain of tragic events.

MY SAY Much of what we associate with "Frankenstein" comes not from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel but from James Whale’s 1931 movie. A few examples: the moonlit graveyard visits, the hunchbacked assistant, the unwisely swapped human brains, the lightning that revives the Creature, the little girl he accidentally kills and the angry village

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