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Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein. Ken Woroner/Netflix hide caption toggle caption Ken Woroner/Netflix 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 reject them. Hellboy (2004) was a half-demon with a full heart. The Amphibian Man in …

The fact that Frankenstein is hitting theaters before it arrives on Netflix is no doubt due to Guillermo del Toro’s strong desire for his dream project to have a theatrical experience. It also helps that movies must have a theatrical run to qualify for award season. The latter is one reason Netflix’s surprise hit KPop Demon Hunters had those limited …

Netflix A gothic, blood-drenched work of art, Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is a movie made for lonely goth weirdos and lonely goth weirdos at heart. It’s a stunningly beautiful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s immortal classic, and a movie that del Toro has been trying to get made for several years. There are …

‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Creature Rises  The New York Times Frankenstein film review — Oscar Isaac parents Jacob Elordi badly in maximalist epic  Financial Times ’Frankenstein’ U.K. Premiere: Mia Goth on Her Surprise Second Role, Felix Kammerer on What He Checked off His Bucket List  The Hollywood Reporter The Best Frankenstein Movies, Ranked  IndieWire Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ stitches genius and excess into …

Netflix (via IGN) has debuted the first clip from Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaptation of Frankenstein, and it highlights arguably the most well-known and iconic moment from Mary Shelley’s classic tale. The extended clip finds Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) completing his experiment to reanimate dead tissue, thus “birthing” the Creature he stitched together from the limbs and organs of several recently deceased people. …

Guillermo del Toro on Creating a ‘Frankenstein’ Monster Unlike Any Before  The New York Times ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Sorrowful Adaptation  Slant Magazine “I’m In The Regret Decade” Sparks TIFF Buzz About Frankenstein’s 2025 Dates  Red94 TIFF50 Review: del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ doesn’t have much of a pulse  Vanyaland Guillermo del Toro Says Audiences Won’t Be Terrified by Jacob Elordi’s Monster in ‘Frankenstein’  IMDb Source …

Channing Tatum was almost the star of a Guillermo del Toro fairy tale. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum said he was offered the role of the Beast in del Toro’s retelling of “The Beauty and the Beast.” However, because the “Roofman” star “just had a baby” at the time and the film’s script wasn’t “totally there yet,” …

Frankenstein is one of those stories that’s been retold countless times. And yet, Guillermo del Toro has managed to make a version that not only feels true to Mary Shelley’s original, but is also imbued with the trademarks the director is known for. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising — when presenting the film at its premiere at the Toronto …

Regrets, he has a few, Guillermo del Toro told the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday night. The good thing, though, those regrets are creative fodder for the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s next movies. “I’m 60 now. So I’ve gone from asking who I am as a father and son to regret. I’m in the regret decade. Expect a lot of regret,” the …

On the heels of his Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, Guillermo del Toro announced a new gestating project called Fury, which will feature Isaac and is described as a “violent” pic in the vein of a murderous My Dinner with Andre (1981). “I’m writing a project to do with Oscar,” the director …