Halloween may be over, but Guillermo del Toro resurrected one of literature’s most famous monsters. His latest Netflix film, Frankenstein , which, he’s emphasized, is not a horror, was in progress for years, and it has charmed audiences with its tribute to the original novel by Mary Shelley . But how does the movie compare to the 1818 book?

Leading up to the release of his film, Del Toro said Shelley’s work was his “Bible,” but he “wanted to make it my own, to sing it back in a different key with a different emotion,” the filmmaker told Netflix’s Tudum . “Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is rife with questions that burn brightly in my soul: existential, tender, savage, doomed questions that only burn in a young mind and only adults and institutions believe they can answer.”

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