"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I’ve lived with Mary Shelley’s creation all my life,” Guillermo del Toro says in the production notes ...

Mary Shelley's iconic creation has birthed dozens of revisionist takes since the 1931 classic everyone remembers. The story behind the novel is almost as famous as the novel itself: in the summer of ...

The classic 1931 film — adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 book of the same name — introduced audiences to one of cinema’s most enduring monsters: aptly named, the Monster, though often mistaken for his ...

Ever since 19-year-old Mary Shelley went on a writing holiday and dreamed up the genre-bending "Frankenstein," audiences have been captivated by the titular mad scientist and his lonely, abandoned ...

Unlike the iconic monster we have come to know through various movies, Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is more faithful to Mary Shelley's original novel. For more than two centuries, Mary ...

Guillermo del Toro's new Netflix "Frankenstein" revives Mary Shelley's original intent, focusing on the creature's humanity and the scientist's moral responsibility. Unlike Hollywood's monster movie ...

In the early 1970s, as a child in the city of Guadalajara, west Mexico, Guillermo Del Toro spent his Sundays worshipping at two hallowed grounds: the church and the cinema. In the latter, he was drawn ...

In Guillermo del Toro’s new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created. Credit...Photo illustration by Hannah Whitaker Supported by By Parul Sehgal ...

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