When Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” hits theaters today, it will join an honorable lineage of Mary Shelley adaptations that began in 1910, continued throughout the silent era, and helped create ...

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel, is new on Netflix. What are the chances of del Toro directing a sequel to the film? Set largely in the mid-1850s, ...

Boris Karloff was the first actor to bring the monster, a.k.a. the Creature, to life in the 1931 film The role of the monster has been portrayed by numerous actors over the years, with Jacob Elordi ...

Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff's gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear. Melvyn Douglas, Lillian ...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s movie will mark the latest adaptation of Shelley’s work after Frankenstein came to the screen in the 1931 classic Universal Monsters movie starring Boris Karloff as the ...

It's difficult to think of a story Hollywood has revisited more than "Frankenstein." There have been dozens of film adaptations, yet none can top the 1931 classic that made Boris Karloff a star. So do ...

Soulful, swoony, feverish, with a narrative that stacks the emotional deck in favor of the hideous outcast — I mean, that's pretty much the jacket copy you'd find on any volume of Mary Shelley's 1818 ...