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My maker taught his tale.

And I will tell you mine.

I will tell you mine. I remember pieces, memories of different men.

And how? memories of different men. And I saw it.

Your name.

Victor Frankenstein.

Welcome to the film cast After Dark's coverage of Guillermo D'Otero's Frankenstein, which is streaming right now on Netflix.

This is, of course, Guillermo D'Ottoro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic book.

And so we're going to share our overall thoughts, but you should assume there are going to

be spoilers for both the book and the movie coming up pretty soon in this conversation.

Divinger, you've talked about Frankenstein on the podcast a little bit.

You went to go see it in a movie theater, which is apparently an excellent experience. But yes, I'd love for you to expand just a little bit. You went to go see it in a movie theater, which is apparently an excellent experience.

But yes, I'd love for you to expand just a little bit more about your thoughts on this

adaptation. What do you think of this movie? No notes. How about that? I love this movie. I think

this is peak Guillermo del Toro. I think it's incredible that he had a chance to make this movie because clearly Frankenstein, the kind of inherent idea for it. The stuff with his movies is always sympathy for the monster, often more so than the humans. That is the core of the Frankenstein story. It's felt like he's been trying to make this movie his entire career.

Like, Kronos, even Blade 2 kind of has the whole thing of like a truly monster,

extra monstrous vampire and a weird father-creator relationship.

Hellboy is the same thing, a monster living in a world that he can never quite be a part of

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