Frankenstein

A new Netflix collaboration with the acclaimed director — simultaneously the most faithful and the most revisionist adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, a project Guillermo del Toro has dreamed of since childhood.

Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant but egocentric scientist who, driven by pride, brings to life a creature assembled from the remains of soldiers fallen in war. But the experiment turns tragic: the relationship between creator and creation forces a fundamental question — who is the real monster? “Only monsters play God,” the tagline reminds us.

Together with his team of artists and makeup specialists, striving to minimize CGI, del Toro has crafted a monster that is not only terrifying but mysterious, touching, and majestic in its own way. “I saw myself in him,” he says of his encounter with the Creation in the 1931 original film.