7 h. ago How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext

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15 h. ago Guillermo del Toro and his cast on his very intimate new Frankenstein: ‘This is autobiographical for me’

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext

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40 h. ago What to Stream: 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' Tracy Morgan, Kim Kardashian and 'Downton Abbey'

The earnest superhero team-up tale “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and Tracy Morgan returning to TV with a new comedy called “Crutch” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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9 d. ago Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use AI in his films

Filmmaker says ‘natural stupidity’ is what ‘drives most of the world’s worst features’

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1 week ago The Guardian view on a bumper crop of horror: scary times call for even scarier films | Editorial

A new wave of socially engaged movies is storming the box office and changing how we think about the genreIt should surprise no one to learn that 2025 is being hailed as a golden year for horror films. All horror movies are a reflection of their time, and ours are pretty scary.Tech dystopianism means that Frankenstein’s monster has become a byword for AI, while Bram Stoker’s Dracula has always drawn on a dark strain of English xenophobia. So it is no coincidence that these 19th-century gothic villains, stars of the earliest horror films in the 1920s and 30s, are back in cinemas with new adaptations from directors Guillermo del Toro and Luc Besson. Maggie Gyllenhaal is bringing out another Frankenstein, The Bride!, next year.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money

With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the processFright club: eight film-makers who are redefining modern horrorEvery week at my local multiplex, there is a new horror film. If it’s not a reboot (I Know What You Did Last Summer) or sequel (Final Destination Bloodlines), it’s a prequel (The First Omen; A Quiet Place: Day One), the return of a beloved gothic icon (Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein), or a slasher movie (Dangerous Animals) in which the psycho killer’s weapon of choice is not blades, but sharks. Or it’s a thrilling, deliriously inventive dispatch from one of a new wave of horror auteurs shaking up the cinematic zeitgeist: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, say, or Zach Cregger’s Weapons.By playing with metaphor, imagery and narrative, horror has always addressed hard truths about death, decay and the human condition that mainstream produ...

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2 w. ago Here's when Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas and where in Scotland you can watch it

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas from Friday, October 24, with just 12 in Scotland showing the film.

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2 w. ago Everything we know about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation

From when it’s on Netflix to where it was filmed, here’s everything we know about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

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2 w. ago Frankenstein review: Guillermo del Toro's gory and goofy Edinburgh

Frankenstein is by turns gory and goofy, writes Alistair Harkness

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3 w. ago A team of artisans brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life

In “Frankenstein,” metaphors are hard to resist

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