Let me be clear: It's not that I would ever doubt that Guillermo del Toro could make a visually sumptuous horror film — the Oscar-winning director's filmography is stunning proof, from Pan's Labyrinth to The Shape of Water to Nightmare Alley.
Rather, my concerns about the filmmaker's latest project, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is because it's such well-trodden territory — there are reportedly 190 known films featuring some version or interpretation of the character of Frankenstein's monster. And when I heard that said creature would be portrayed in Del Toro's version by Euphoria hunk Jacob Elordi, I was admittedly perplexed by the overall vision.
