As a person who has been obsessed with all things Frankenstein for as long as I can remember, Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation was my most anticipated movie of the year. I am very pleased to say that it did not disappoint. Not only does it stay true to the spirit, if not entirely the […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. We’re all familiar with Frankenstein. Or at least we think we are. Each October, we’re inundated with the iconic image of Boris Karloff’s scared and oddly rectangular face, accompanied by the electric hair of Elsa Lanchester’s reanimated Bride. Most of us can recite the […]
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Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein will receive a Netflix tie-in edition in conjunction with Guillermo del Toro‘s highly anticipated film adaptation. First published in 1818, the Gothic horror masterpiece will be given new life in paperback and e-book on October 28 via Penguin Books. The definitive cautionary tale about creativity, ambition, and isolation includes an introduction by […]
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Have you ever had a vacation so iconic that people are still talking about it over two centuries later? Mary Shelley sure did, with her infamous getaway alongside Percy Shelley, John Polidori, Claire Clairmont and their host Lord Byron resulting in some of the most influential genre fiction of all time. And while Byron’s Darkness […]
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Mary’s Monster follows author Mary Shelley as she struggles to complete her gothic masterpiece, “Frankenstein”, which was published in 1818. Farren Blackburn (“Daredevil,” “A Discovery of Witches”) will direct the feature from a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”), Variety reports. “Terrified of giving voice to the darkness of her subconscious mind, Mary Shelley […]
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In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the […]