When Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” hits theaters today, it will join an honorable lineage of Mary Shelley adaptations that began in 1910, continued throughout the silent era, and helped create ...

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel, is new on Netflix. What are the chances of del Toro directing a sequel to the film? Set largely in the mid-1850s, ...

Boris Karloff was the first actor to bring the monster, a.k.a. the Creature, to life in the 1931 film The role of the monster has been portrayed by numerous actors over the years, with Jacob Elordi ...

British actor Boris Karloff is seen in his trademark role as the monster of Frankenstein in this 1947 photograph. In my last column, I discussed the evolution of the cinematic vampire, from silent ...

Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff's gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear. Melvyn Douglas, Lillian ...

When Universal Pictures released Frankenstein in 1931, it helped define an entire generation of horror. Considering the legacy of the film, it would have been impossible to predict that, four years ...

It's difficult to think of a story Hollywood has revisited more than "Frankenstein." There have been dozens of film adaptations, yet none can top the 1931 classic that made Boris Karloff a star. So do ...

Soulful, swoony, feverish, with a narrative that stacks the emotional deck in favor of the hideous outcast — I mean, that's pretty much the jacket copy you'd find on any volume of Mary Shelley's 1818 ...