The Incomparable, number 802, January 2026.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

This episode is about the 2025 Netflix film Frankenstein,

which means technically this is an episode of our loosely organized

Guillermo del Toro club, where we last year watched several del Toro movies and we're continuing

with the latest and greatest perhaps, or at least the latest for sure, 2025's Frankenstein, briefly played in theaters, and then boom, right on the Netflix, as is Netflix's tradition.

Here, I have selected a group of creatures and or monsters to join me to discuss this, and let's start with Moises Chouyan. Hello. Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather. Just getting ready. Victor. Monty Ashley is here. Hello. I'm sorry. I'm still in the third hour of my 12-hour makeup regimen. Please come back to me later.

Okay. You're looking great. You're looking great. Brian Hamilton is here. Hello.

I need you to make a panel for me. We can be monsters together.

We can be monsters. Tony Sindelar is here. Hello.

I cannot die and I cannot podcast alone.

And yes, thank you.

Very good.

And from the frozen waste of the north where there could be a monster at any moment,

it's Annette Weirstra.

Hello.

Mm-hmm.

I have created something truly horrible. Mm-hmm. I have created something truly horrible.

Mm-hmm.

So, Frankenstein, the first science fiction novel by Mary Shelley.

And I get the sense that Guillermo D'Otoiro has wanted to make a Frankenstein movie for his whole life.

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