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 ...

The classic 1931 film — adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 book of the same name — introduced audiences to one of cinema’s most enduring monsters: aptly named, the Monster, though often mistaken for his ...

Frankenstein is a character who has been a part of our popular culture. It originated from the namesake Gothic novel by Mary ...

Prelude: Once upon a time, a boy watched a movie. In it, a monster with bolts in his head and a shuffling gate was created by a man. When the boy gazed upon "the creature," as the characters called ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I’ve lived with Mary Shelley’s creation all my life,” Guillermo del Toro says in the production notes ...

British actor Boris Karloff is seen in his trademark role as the monster of Frankenstein in this 1947 photograph. In my last column, I discussed the evolution of the cinematic vampire, from silent ...

Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his creations are things of strange beauty, haunting, ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been inspiring storytellers for centuries, including Marvel Comics' Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.