Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Much as this is a coup for streamers, hot damn this needs the biggest screen you can find.

[TTRPGWhiz]

Feels like it was only a matter of time before Mia Goth ended up in a Del Toro joint.

 

This looks like it might have good chance to be the “seminal” Frankenstein movie. The competition isn’t particularly fierce.

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

1 hour ago, TTRPGWhiz said:

The competition isn’t particularly fierce.

 

There are a lot to choose from, mind. It's been filmed as far back as 1910...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_Frankenstein's_monster

...yes, including Frankenstein's Great-Aunt Tillie. 

 

It's not "definitive" - the ending's a copout - but it's iconic: I still like the OG Karloff version, and it's pretty much genre-defining.

(How many times have you heard it's alive... it's aliiiive!)

 

The Ken Branagh / Robert de Niro "Mary Shelley's" take in 1994 isn't as terrible as it's cracked up to be, but he wasn't quite ready as a director to handle anything that big. (As for the Dan Radcliffe one... nope, sorry kid.) And then of course all the various borrowings and rip-offs like Rocky Horror and Poor Things.

 

But out of all of 'em, there's one scene that they've still got to better...

Spoiler

 

 

 

...okay, maybe two.

 

 

Edited June 2 by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[TTRPGWhiz]

The Karloff one is for sure iconic, but the liberties it took with The Creature significantly alters that story. It’s sort of its own thing. I really liked the take on Penny Dreadful, but I have a huge soft spot for that show.

 

Branagh’s was pretty darn faithful but I totally agree; he wasn’t ready for it.