Frankenstein might be the most pedant-friendly horror franchise. It’s not just that some love to point out that the name Frankenstein refers to the human Victor Frankenstein and not the Monster he made in lab, but also that the iconic green-skinned pyrophobe which Boris Karloff portrayed is a far cry from the erudite Adam in Mary Shelley ‘s 1818 novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus .

Storytellers have taken all manner of creative liberty with Shelley’s 200-year-old source material, and Guillermo del Toro is no different. While del Toro will happily admit he is obsessed with the novel and Shelley, and his sumptuous new movie for Netflix certainly hews closer to her work than the Universal Monsters movies that James Whale made in 1931 and 1935, the Mexican filmmaker inj

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