{"id":40601,"date":"2025-11-27T04:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40601"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:27:01","slug":"frankenstein-2025-written-directed-by-guillermo-del-toro-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40601","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; (2025) written &amp; directed by Guillermo del Toro \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z112625zview_frankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Guillermo del Toro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Guillermo del Toro;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LYHlW1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRANKENSTEIN<\/a> by <strong>Mary Shelley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, Charles Dance, David Bradley, Kyle Gatehouse, Lauren Collins, Ralph Ineson, Peter MacNeill <\/strong>and <strong>Burn Gorman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<i> Only monsters play God.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a01857.\u00a0 <em>The Horisont<\/em>, a ship sailing to the North Pole, has become trapped in ice. While attempting to free the vessel, the crew finds a badly injured man named Victor Frankenstein.\u00a0 They bring him aboard and begin treating his wounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not long after, a huge scarred man with incredible strength attacks the ship.\u00a0 Several of the crew are injured or killed.\u00a0 The monster demands that Victor Frankenstein be turned over to him.\u00a0 Instead the Captain orders his men to fire upon the creature.\u00a0 The shots break the ice around the monster and it sinks away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the crew rejoices, Victor Frankenstein says that the creature can not be killed.\u00a0 It will return and attack again.\u00a0 Frankenstein says he knows this because he created the monster.<\/p>\n<p>This is his (and the creature&#8217;s) story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guillermo del Toro licensed Bernie Wrightson&#8217;s illustrations from Wrightson&#8217;s FRANKENSTEIN graphic novel adaptation to be used in pre-production of the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Del Toro has created a beautiful adaptation.\u00a0 It is well cast, well directed and well acted.\u00a0 The set designs are award-worthy.\u00a0 I enjoyed the experience of watching it, but his <em>Frankenstein<\/em> is not one I feel I will be re-watching much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z112625zview_frankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankenstein (2025) Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro;\u00a0based on FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40610,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions\/40610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}