Frankenstein
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein, 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.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, 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.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a deeply personal, visually driven reinterpretation that reframes monstrosity as imposed rather than innate. Blending gothic beauty, religious symbolism, and restrained dialogue, the film meditates on creation, responsibility, and otherness.© 2025 Netflix, Inc. Visually, “Frankenstein” is unmistakably del Toro’s. Cold air, towering architecture and expansive landscapes create a dreamlike atmosphere.
But this “Frankenstein” is unmistakably del Toro’s, and it bears every single one of his fingerprints. Lush, melodramatic, sweepingly romantic and achingly emotional, it is a tale of fathers and sons, of lovers and outcasts, of men as the true monsters. Abandoned creatures struggle to understand an excruciating world, and their creators, their parents, never fully understood it either. Shelley’s skeleton is there, but the flesh around it is del Toro’s.
