Ever since he was a kid Guillermo del Toro has dreamed of making two movies. The first was accomplished in 2022 with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio , which took the Animated Feature Oscar . And now the second, Frankenstein , is upon us, a new adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel that the director has been fixated on ever since seeing Universal’s 1931 film version with Boris Karloff. It’s nice to report he’s 2 for 2.

It is hard to imagine any other filmmaker who could bring the Gothic spirit to this property better than this one. It is simply because del Toro has more to say, and more emotion to lay on, in this genre than anyone out there. He has proven it in different ways in Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio and certainly his Best Picture and Best Director Os

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