FILM
FRANKENSTEIN
FINALLY, IT’S ALIVE!
This job was a monster pain in the neck.
Mia Goth gets Gothic.
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 150 MINS
DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro
CAST Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance
PLOT Mistreated and malcontent, a patchwork monster (Elordi) made up of ransacked body parts seeks revenge on its egotistical creator, Victor Frankenstein (Isaac).
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S been talking about it since his 1992 feature debut, Cronos. He’s been dreaming of it since 1971, when, aged seven, he first saw Boris Karloff shamble through James Whale’s 1931 masterpiece. And now he’s finally done it — adapted Mary Shelley’s incredibly influential 1818 Gothic novel about a scientist playing God (with hellish results) into his very own Frankenstein movie.