Like a mad scientist trying to beat life into dead matter, Hollywood has been caught up in an obsessive attempt to revive the majesty and chills of 1931’s Frankenstein for decades, and it seems Guillermo del Toro has cracked the formula. His new film, just titled Frankenstein, offers a fresh new take on the 107-year-old tale, by not really changing all that much from the source material where it matters.

Frankenstein is told in two parts: the first of which is Victor’s tale, as told through the eyes of Oscar Isaac’s reckless and destructively ambitious Victor Frankenstein. The audience is shown a glimpse of his childhood including his ethereal mother and abusive, overbearing father, played by Mia Goth and Charles Dance respectively. Goth shines both as Victor’s mom and later on as his bro

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