Guillermo del Toro doesn’t just direct monsters — he understands them.

The Oscar-winning auteur behind “The Shape of Water” (2017) and “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) has built a career elevating genre cinema through stories of misunderstood outsiders. But with his long-awaited adaptation of “ Frankenstein ,” the Mexican filmmaker has returned to what he calls his creative origin — and maybe his most personal film yet.

“To me, the point of origin was ‘Frankenstein,’” del Toro tells Variety . “This is not a monster movie. This is a story about what it means to be human.”

Del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel isn’t horror in the conventional sense — it’s myth, metaphor and opera. After decades in development, “Frankenstein” finally premiered at the Venice Film Festival to rapt curios

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