Well, I finally caught up with Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein ahead of the Oscars. Go ahead and give it nominations for costumes, set design and makeup, but *best picture*?

It's like Duelists-era Ridley Scott being told to make a big-buget Hammer film for the PBS crowd.

Making a handsome genre film is simply not the same as undermining or elevating or subverting its tropes.

Del Toro's Frankenstein joins the ranks of Coppola’s Dracula and Eggers’ Nosferatu as Masterpiece Theater horror.