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Guillermo del Toro on Mountains of Madness and Frankenstein!
FirstShowing.net — ... Apparently Guillermo is still interested in taking the same script that Frank Darabont wrote because it was so butchered by Kenneth Branagh in his 1994 version (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein), that what's on screen isn't hardly anything like Darabont's original script. Frankenstein re-imagined by Guillermo del Toro? I'm in! ...

Guillermo del Toro Wants to do Frankenstein
Cinematical — ... tried to do this 13 years ago with his Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, there was an unshot version of the script by ...

Guillermo del Toro Wants to do Frankenstein
Movie Blog — ... tried to do this 13 years ago with his Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, there was an unshot version of the script by ...

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Antagony & Ecstasy — ... ing to achieve "be as impersonal and marketable as possible," but you can figure it out without too much work. Not so, Branagh and Sleuth . His vocabulary for this film is aggressively eclectic, but not to any understandable purpose. The film is much taken up with close-ups, tight and frightening close-ups on Caine and Law that cut with every line of dialogue; and that's positively jejune next to his highly idiosyncratic trick of framing such that whatever we would expect and desire to see is cut off, and a whole conversation will be focused on the actors' shins, for example. It's much too specifically bizarre to be an accident, and the only conclusion is that Branagh had some very specific aesthetic goal in mind, but unless that goal was confusing the hell out of the audience, he did not succeed. There are two possibilities: he is a crazy fool, or he is such a genius of cinema that he's operating on a level I can't even begin to perceive. Given that his career has included ...

From Post-Mortem to Postmodern: A History of Horror Movies, Part 6
The Vault of Horror — It seemed like the horror genre had nowhere else to go after the blood-drenched, boundary-pushing 1970s and '80s. And in a way, that was true.The 1990s is remembered by many as a lowpoint in the history of scary movies. And while that's a slightly inaccurate generalization, the decade did suffer in some respects as a result of the excesses of the years that preceded it. On the one hand, you had many of the deathless franchises of the 1980s lurching forward, series like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween churning out sequel after sequel, burning out the moviegoing ...

Frankenstein Man Love [Found Footage]
io9 — ... look, which is actually kind of great if you can ignore shirtless Branagh's emoting. And then there's the lube. Giant tanks full of lube, all over naked De Niro and shirtless Branagh, struggling in a slippery homoerotic pile of WTF. I love the close-ups of Ne Niro's butt and back scars, then the way those chains hang so artfully when he dangles from the roof so that we don't see his monstery nether regions. It's leatherboy camp horror of the 1990s, confusingly made by straight guys. [Mary Shelley's Frankenstein via IMDB] ...

Random Video of the Day
my new plaid pants — ... I haven't seen Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (aka Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) since it came out, and I have no recollection of whether I liked it or not - I really sort of forgot it even exists, to be honest. ...

Classic Movie Monsters vs. Modern Movie Monsters
Screen Rant — ... Dr. Victor Frankenstein and how he learns to create life. Even two hundred years ago, people were apparently concerned about man trying to play God, because her novel has some uncanny similarities to modern ethical questions about cloning. Difference is, the town’s folk aren’t storming the castle with pitch forks and torches nowadays, but rather storming the politician offices with blogs and protests (Zing!). Frankenstein 1931 (Boris Karloff) vs. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1994 (Robert De Niro) ...