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 ...

This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises once more, summoned this time by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro. But green-skinned, bolt-necked and flat-skulled he is not. In fact, the monster — who ...

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 ...

Guillermo del Toro released his take on "Frankenstein" in 2025 — so what should you watch if you love this Gothic horror film ...

The story of Frankenstein became a movie legend with Universal Pictures' 1931 film, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the Monster. The movie brought Mary Shelley's classic tale to ...

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 ...

One of the many enduring images of Halloween is the towering, shambling figure of Frankenstein’s monster, made most famous by a series of films from Universal Pictures in the 1930s. Sign up for the ...

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 ...