Del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein is both a resurrection and a requiem. Reimagining Mary Shelley ’s classic through his ...

Guillermo del Toro explained how scouting locations for The Lord of the Rings' prequel film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, traumatized him. Originally set to direct the film adaptation of J. R. R ...

The two-time Oscar nominee breaks down the wide-angle aesthetic, in-camera effects and bold amber-and-steel-blue palette ...

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is Guillermo del Toro’s bible. When he was 11 years old, the novel and subsequent movies were not only his first love, they were how he processed his relationship with ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic horror classic, has been adapted so many times that it’s hard to do anything new with the material, ...

Guillermo del Toro’s heart is almost always with the monsters. Plenty of his movies have sympathetic, fully human characters, ...

Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who ...

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 ...