Frankenstein

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.

Del Toro's Frankenstein lands as a broadly admired but not universally embraced Gothic epic — visually opulent, unusually faithful to Shelley's novel, and shaped by the director's signature preoccupations with monstrous fathers and abandoned sons. The main fault line runs between critics who find the film's grand Romantic scale emotionally earned and those who feel its reverence for period aesthetics and sprawling runtime blunt the novel's raw philosophical charge.