In writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s imagining of Mary Shelley’s epic horror novel Frankenstein, the world is strikingly beautiful, but full of vile and sad creatures called humans.
Of particular interest is a man called Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a young doctor who has been mentally and physically abused by his strict father — Baron Leopold Frankenstein (Charles Dance) — one of the great doctors of his age who fails to save his pregnant wife, Baroness Claire Frankenstein (Mia Goth in overlong, flowing red veils). Victor, close to his mother, vows to conquer death, which his father, and later fellow doctors, say is an absolute
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