As a print magazine that prides itself on hand-crafted artistry, we have always felt like kindred spirits with the similarly inclined cine-sage, Guillermo del Toro. Back in the earliest years of this publication, his work enthralled and beguiled our writers and editors – in particular, Pan’s Labyrinth, which came out a year after our inception in 2005. In the interim years, we have made two issues around del Toro’s films: one on Crimson Peak, and another on The Shape of Water. Our newest issue, a shrine to his scintillating passion project, Frankenstein, makes it number three.
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Inside the issue…
Lead review: Frankenstein
Sophie Monks Kaufman grapples with Guillermo del Toro’s febrile, philosophical and tender melodrama.
Wildest Dreamer
Hannah Strong goes face to face with writer/director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally realise a dream project.
Creature Comforts
Jacob Elordi opens up about finding humanity and empathy in playing Victor Frankenstein’s cursed Creature.
Heart on a Slab
Oscar Isaac dissects one of classic literature’s most notorious and complex scientists in conversation with Hannah Strong.
The Quiet Woman
Rafa Sales Ross meets the great Mia Goth, whose sombre presence in Frankenstein gives the film a shot of melancholy.
Building the Monster
David Jenkins meets costume designer Kate Hawley and production designer Tamara Deverell to find out how they extracted images from Guillermo del Toro’s lively imagination.
Weird Science
Will Sloan tabulates 10 of the strangest screen adaptations of Mary Shelley’s epochal 1818 novel.
Blood & Ink
Jake Cole writes in praise of comic artist Bernie Wrightson and his influential graphic version of ‘Frankenstein’.
Anatomy of Hell
Illustrator and tattoo artist Sophie Mo takes a journey inside some of Guillermo del Toro’s most memorable monsters.
