Netflix’s Frankenstein jolts the classic tale with del Toro’s signature flair

Guillermo del Toro has been thinking about Mary Shelley’s novel for a lifetime. He has described Frankenstein as “the quintessential teenage book,” and his famous Bleak House in Los Angeles is filled with versions of the creature from various film and stage adaptations. Naturally, the director has also imagined turning it into a movie himself. “I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you’ve made it,” he said a decade ago. “Whether it’s great or not, it’s done. You cannot dream about it anymore.”

Del Toro’s take on Frankenstein isn’t a dramatic reinvention of the classic monster myth. Instead, it explores …

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