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Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

Frankenstein: how similar is Guillermo del Toro's film to the book?

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is finally out on Netflix. Which means, spoiler – though the Hallowe’en season is officially over, we still get to see his Gothic fever dream play out on the small screen.

Frankenstein, of course, is an adaptation of a book that’s been around a very long time: since 1818, in fact, when author Mary Shelley first published the tome she called ‘The Modern Prometheus’.

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