Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN

It was always gonna be hard after PAN’S LABYRINTH. Guillermo de Toro made his major market entrance with such rich visual language and a fabulist storyteller’s gift for imbuing the fairy tale with the mundane grit of human history. Since then some things have worked (THE SHAPE OF WATER) while others felt like that visual…

Corruption.

There is now, of course, a third notable NOSFERATU in the collective unconscious, which I haven’t yet gotten around to hate-watching. The plan, on Christmas, was to get up early, and begin with Murnau’s 1922 silent, in bed (which I did), then stay put and revisit Herzog’s 1979 remake (which I also did). Finally, I…