Given the thematic preoccupation Guillermo del Toro has long had with sympathetic, romanticized monsters, which arguably culminated in his multi-Oscar-winning The Shape of Water (2017), it was really only a matter of time before he tackled a new version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Originally published in 1818, Shelley's epistolatory novel became one of the cornerstones of both Gothic literature and the emerging genre of science fiction and has been long cemented in the public imaginary as the preeminent cautionary tale about the dangers of science unmoored from ethical consideration'”the danger, that is, of humanity playing God. There has ... Read More