It's alive! It's alive! Frankenstein has been in lots of movies, from the classics you know and love, to the amazing cult films you never knew about.

Guillermo del Toro reunited with “Crimson Peak” costume designer Kate Hawley to help bring the look of “Frankenstein” to life. When Hawley got the call, as a lover of the romantics and former art history student,

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Many of the changes del Toro makes to the Creature's story are to intensify that bond: his violence, unlike the novel, isn't directed at Victor's own family as a retributive act for his creator refusing to make him a companion, but at Victor himself as an expression of those cyclical forces.

This article contains spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” now streaming on Netflix. Guillermo del Toro has often said that Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” is like his Bible. Now,

The final scenes of Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film are a major departure from the last pages of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel.

Gothic romance is everywhere—on runways, where designers are making couture for vampires, in homes with Medieval modern interiors trending, and, of course, in your Netflix queue, where projects like Frankenstein are leaning into the trappings of horror.