From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to the treatment. This week, we were lucky enough to get a

return visit from writer-director Guillermo

del Toro.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker joined me, along with a live audience at KCRW's Annenberg

Performance Space for a wide-ranging conversation, as usual, on his most recent Netflix film,

Frankenstein.

It's nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.

Join us for that conversation.

I guess the thing I haven't really had a chance to talk to you about is the first thing I thought about when I saw Frankenstein was the opening of

Kronos. Oh yeah.

Which is it postular? It's a letter being written.

There's carnage.

There's a man with strange skin.

Yeah? No, it is.

I mean, I've been trying to do Frankenstein

for 50 years.

So every movie I've ever made

had Frankenstein's tricks in it.

The makeup of the character in Chronos with the Frankenstein's scar and the color,

the sort of marble and moonlight makeup at the end,

the epistolary nature of the opening with the voiceover, etc., etc.

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