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Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein. A brilliant but madly scientist, obsessed with bringing back to life a monstrous creature in an experiment that ultimately leads the creator and his beyond-the-grave creation to a tragic finale. Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature, Del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic has been a 30-year journey for Del Toro who’s said he’s wanted to make this film since he was a child.

In his Director’s statement for the Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Del Toro explained his fascination with Frankenstein: "Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is rife with questions that burn brightly in my soul: existential, tender, savage, doomed questions that only a young mind allows and only adults and institutions believe they can answer. For me, however, monsters alone hold the answer to all mysteries. They are the mystery. So Frankenstein is a blessed enterprise moved by reverence and love for both mystery and monsters."