3 d. ago The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute convictionGuillermo del Toro is just about to release his epic new Frankenstein adaptation, swathed in self-conscious artistry and mythic self-importance. But this rereleased 1957 Hammer shocker from the screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and the veteran director Terence Fisher, shows the way it should be done – with unpretentious energy and sly macabre gusto. In vivid Eastmancolor, it’s a film electrified with its own melodramatic crassness, unencumbered with good taste and certainly uninterested in making either Frankenstein or his creature in any way tragically sympathetic.Peter Cushing plays the brilliant and fatally hubristic scientist Victor Frankenstein; the young Melvyn Hayes has a notable juve-lead role in flashback as the supercilious young Victor. Working with his sorrowingly reluctant colleague and former tutor Paul (Robert Urquhart), Frankenstein secretly constructs a new hum...

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4 d. ago New trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein reveals more about Jacob Elordi's Creature

“He will tell his tale,” wrote del Toro on social media following the trailer’s release.

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1 week ago An immersive Pompeii exhibition will land in London this autumn

An immersive Pompeii exhibition will land in London this autumn  Time Out Worldwide

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3 w. ago Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ exhibition coming to London

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ exhibition coming to London  Blooloop

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3 w. ago Netflix Brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Exhibition to London This Autumn

Netflix Brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Exhibition to London This Autumn  What's on Netflix

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3 w. ago Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein comes to life in London — And it’s free to explore

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein comes to life in London — And it’s free to explore  Shortlist

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last month Meet your descendants – and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival’s extended reality island

A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer spaceIn the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a dead body for his colleagues, some see it as a trick while others are outraged. “It’s an abomination, an obscenity,” shouts one hide-bound old timer, and his alarm is partly justified. Every technological breakthrough opens Pandora’s box. You don’t know what’s going to crawl out or where it will then choose to go.Behind the main festival venue sits the small ruined island of Lazzaretto Vecchio. Since 2017, it’s been home to Venice Immersive, the event’s groundbreaking section dedicated to showcasing and supporting XR (extended reality) storytelling. Before that it was a storage facility, before that a plague quarantine zone. Eliza McNitt, this ...

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