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As a kid, Guillermo del Toro drew pictures of the creature from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”; as a young filmmaker, he dreamed of making his own version of the tale that had been spawning classic ...

The flayed, bloody flesh, screeching soundtrack, Gothic sets, and elegantly flapping costumes are all on brand for the visionary director. In the 200 years since Mary Shelley first realized her ...

Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who ...

The director Guillermo del Toro narrates a sequence in which Dr. Victor Frankenstein presents his findings at a disciplinary tribunal. In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets ...

Oscar Isaac’s Doctor Frankenstein says a funny thing in the final trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. “I had not considered what comes after creation.” A ludicrous statement considering ...

Guillermo del Toro has said it was his lifelong dream to make his own version of Frankenstein. That dream has now been realized — and then some. Soulful, swoony, feverish, with a narrative that stacks ...

It’s aaalive, but not in the ways you might think. Sewing together a career’s worth of limbs, intestines and dismembered body parts from his previous films, taking fleshy bits from former pictures and ...