When Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” hits theaters today, it will join an honorable lineage of Mary Shelley adaptations that began in 1910, continued throughout the silent era, and helped create ...

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 ...

Boris Karloff was the first actor to bring the monster, a.k.a. the Creature, to life in the 1931 film The role of the monster has been portrayed by numerous actors over the years, with Jacob Elordi ...

Soulful, swoony, feverish, with a narrative that stacks the emotional deck in favor of the hideous outcast — I mean, that's pretty much the jacket copy you'd find on any volume of Mary Shelley's 1818 ...

British actor Boris Karloff is seen in his trademark role as the monster of Frankenstein in this 1947 photograph. In my last column, I discussed the evolution of the cinematic vampire, from silent ...

Guillermo del Toro was a young child growing up in Mexico when he first saw James Whale’s 1931 film adaptation of “Frankenstein.” The film was an epiphany for the young boy, who spent every Sunday ...

One of the many enduring images of Halloween is the towering, shambling figure of Frankenstein’s monster, made most famous by a series of films from Universal Pictures in the 1930s. Sign up for the ...

Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave birth to another monster Saturday, his big-budget "Frankenstein" movie, joking that the effort had left him worn out as his creation got its world premiere in ...

Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who ...

Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein premiered on Netflix on Nov. 7 The film stars Oscar Isaac as the mad scientist, with Jacob Elordi as the fearsome creature ...