Guillermo Del Toro is the latest director to adapt Frankenstein for the big screen, but his version will be radically different from any other.

1940s Universal Monsters led the way in crossovers, with Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfman uniting in iconic films for ...

In my view, this is largely because the Universal monsters had already crossed over and interacted since the 1940s in films such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and House of Dracula (1945).

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...