Frankenstein Movie Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Lavish Gothic Epic Finally Lives

Gothic laboratory scene from Frankenstein: towering stitched creature silhouette in lightning with arctic ship beyond

The Verdict Guillermo del Toro has waited three decades to make Frankenstein, and it shows in every frame. This is not a horror movie so much as a gothic opera: a 149-minute, lushly mounted retelling of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Oscar Isaac as the doomed Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature — a … Read more