Long before vampires and werewolves became the pop-culture creatures of choice, Frankenstein’s Monster stood alone as cinema’s original misunderstood monster. First brought to life in Thomas Edison’s ...
Left to right: Boris Karloff in “Frankenstein” (Universal Pictures), Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” (Ken Woroner/Netflix) and Peter Boyle in “Young Frankenstein” (20th Century Fox ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. Frankenstein (2025) follows the classic tale of Victor ...
The film begins, as Shelley’s novel does, on a giant ship that’s trapped in the Arctic ice—one that is clearly a physical, colossal prop. When the hulking Creature (played by Jacob Elordi) shows up ...
“Frankenstein” has haunted Guillermo del Toro since he was a kid who barely reached the Creature’s knees. Back in 2011, the writer-director was already tinkering with a version of the monster that ...
Guillermo del Toro is the latest filmmaker to bring Mary Shelley's classic monster back to life on the big screen with his new adaptation of Frankenstein. According to Wikipedia, there have been 423 ...
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein makes major changes to the story of Mary Shelley’s original novel, and some proved controversial. In some ways, Del Toro’s monster is more faithful to the eloquent, ...
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"Frankenstein" is a tale of corpses, killings, diabolical revenge, dismembered body parts. You know: girl stuff. How could she? How could Mary Shelley — 18, female — have written the most ...