Guillermo del Toro brings to life Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel in his adaptation of gothic science fiction, Frankenstein.
Lavish and visually sumptuous and starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance.
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
RogerEbert.com – Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a breathtaking coup, an exhilarating riposte to the conventional wisdom about dream projects. The writer-director makes something almost new, and definitely rich and strange, out of a story we all thought we knew well. (full review here)
Paste Magazine – Del Toro’s fables are always beautiful but sometimes irregular in connecting their artistry to fully cogent characters and themes. With Frankenstein, he has the freedom to reconstruct a story and motifs he knows by heart into a movie that’s intimately familiar with the soul of the original material, but reaches the conclusions on its own terms. (full review here)
Total Film – Cleaving closely to the source material, del Toro wants to explore the trauma that makes us, mankind’s capacity for cruelty, the death we bring on ourselves through war, and the catharsis of forgiveness – all notions that make Frankenstein relevant in current world politics and social media savagery. (full review here)
