Visiting the Scotland That Inspired Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’—and the 2025 Movie

The ‘Frankenstein’ author never actually lived in Edinburgh. But as this trip reveals, the city—with its crooked surgeons and ...
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In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation. But the Real World Can’t Get Enough of His Monster

In the two centuries since the Gothic novel's publication, the English writer's tale of a science experiment gone wrong has ...

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is bloody, beautiful and belabored

In short, Victor creates the Creature (Jacob Elordi), quickly grows weary of him, tries to kill him and fails. Unlike in the ...