"Who hurt you?" Mia Goth's Elizabeth asks Jacob Elordi's 'monster' when she first encounters him, fetal in the bowels of a damp medical basement. It's a question that Guillermo del Toro is looking to unpick in his sumptuous, long-gestated retelling of Mary Shelley's classic, which recalls both Interview With the Vampire and Bram Stoker's Dracula in vibe.
Cleaving closely to the source material, del Toro wants to explore the trauma that makes us, mankind's capacity for cruelty, the death we bring on ourselves through war, and the catharsis of forgiveness – all notions that make Frankenstein relevant in current world politics and social media savagery.
