An ice bound ship, with it's crew working desperately to free it, find a man half dead on the pack ice, mauled by a mighty beast. Once aboard the ship and the beast consined to the icy depths the man tells his story. Of his desire to please an unforgiving father, to creating a monster. Or is he the monster?
Told in flashback, initially from the point of view of the scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), but then more tellingly from the mind of the creature (Jacob Elordi). Del Toro sticks roughly to the original tale and needs the creatures pathos to ground this intreging tale told well using visual flashes of colour in a muted palette to carve out this gothic classic.
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