Rated R for bloody violence and grisly images 

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is the most recent in a long line of contemporary renditions of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic Novel. It’s a story most people know well, or well enough, but unlike other more horror-oriented adaptations, Del Toro’s Frankenstein focuses on the Creature’s humanity. Played by Euphoria star Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein’s monster is a lost soul, forever stuck between life and death. The creature may be a huge, hideous patchwork of faces and body parts, but the film does not portray him as something grotesque. He is sensitive, finding beauty in life despite being born into the world as something horrible. The Creature finds people that he loves, even after being shunned and almost destroyed by his creator. While Victor Frankenstein and his creation have shared the screen hundreds of times by now, no film feels quite as tender or compassionate as Del Toro’s. He pulls the audience in with bold, colorful (and somewhat anachronous) Victorian fashion and leaves them with something more meaningful — the chance to view a traditionally terrifying figure from a new perspective.