Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” has all of the elements that made Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel so chilling. There’s a hulking beast, whose body is assembled from the corpses of other men. There’s an obsessive inventor, who discovers a way to create life out of death, only to experience the violent consequences of his ambition. And there’s spooky catacombs, a mountaintop lab that’s straight out of a Hammer film, and buckets of blood and gore as Victor Frankenstein cobbles together his greatest creation. However, del Toro doesn’t see “Frankenstein,” which will debut at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 30, as a horror movie.
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