Since it opened in select theaters and premiered on Netflix, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has found an enthusiastic audience. If you’re surprised by how much you liked the gothic thriller, here are some other movies you might enjoy across a wide spectrum of genres.
These are not all adaptations, “Frankenstein stories,” or even all supernatural. These are movies if you like del Toro’s film, not movies like it… get it? That said, it’s too bad that my personal favorite, the PBS and Pemberley Digital webseries Frankenstein MD, is no longer streaming. (Remember the public domain web series crave of the 2010s? The Lizzie Bennet Diaries won an Emmy! What a time to be aliiiiiive.) I’m also doing a little experiment of my own and focusing on movies that have female protagonists, female creatures, and/or female directors with as few exceptions as possible.
