If anyone is a master at telling monster stories, it’s Guillermo del Toro .

For years, he has wanted to tell his version of “ Frankenstein ,” and now his imagining of the classic Mary Shelley novel has finally arrived on Netflix.

In true del Toro style, however, his creature is not a monster, but one filled with emotion and humanity. And that vision was something prosthetics artist Mike Hill kept in mind when creating his designs for del Toro’s film. “We wanted to stay away from classical zombies or anything like that,” Hill tells Variety.

In the film, Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein, the scientist convinced that he can conquer death and who starts putting together a Creature ( Jacob Elordi ). He later brings his first experiment to the Royal College of Medicinal Tribunal. “

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