Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but self-centered scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately brings ruin to both him and his tragic creation.
This film concludes a quest that began for me at age seven, when I first saw James Whale's Frankenstein films. At that pivotal moment, I felt a jolt of realization: Gothic horror had become my religion and Boris Karloff my Messiah. Mary Shelley's masterpiece is full of questions that burn within me: existential, tender, wild, inescapable questions that only a young mind can ask and that only adults and institutions believe they can answer. For me, however, only monsters hold the answer to all mysteries. They are the mystery. So Frankenstein is a blessed undertaking, driven by reverence and love for both mystery and monsters. The origin of them all—the story of a prodigal father and a lost son—Job and Lazarus in dialogue with a single creator and in search of all the answers. As we all do. (Guillermo Del Toro)
