movie review

FRANKENSTEIN

Running time: <br>149 minutes. <br>In select theaters Oct. 17. On Netflix, Nov. 7.

TORONTO — Guillermo del Toro has taken the exhumed limbs of his career and sewn them together into “Frankenstein,” which had its Canadian premiere Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

There’s the gothic mansion and blood-red costumes from “Crimson Peak.” Let’s shove that one in a socket.

Of course, a misunderstood creature is visited by an empathetic woman while imprisoned in a lab of giant green glass cylinders, just as in “The Shape of Water.” Screw that on.

The action sequences — I don’t recall so many explosions ever being in Mary Shelley’s novel — ring of “Hellboy.” Fetch the sutures.

It’s all very del Toro. The Mexican Oscar winner is nothing if not distin

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