Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is set for release on Netflix in November 2025, and this month saw the trailer land on the official Netflix YouTube channel.
"I don’t know why so much of Frankenstein in pop culture depicts the use of electricity when it isn’t accurate to the source material."
It's adjacent to the period in which the book was written, though. Mary Shelley was inspired by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta's experiments with electricity on living beings. Filmmakers just took it as a given from knowing that...
Because most of the early Frankenstein films were really using the play based on the novel rather than the novel as their main source. Consequently, it stuck in the minds of people who had no familiarity with the novel's content.
"I don’t know why so much of Frankenstein in pop culture depicts the use of electricity when it isn’t accurate to the source material."
It's adjacent to the period in which the book was written, though. Mary Shelley was inspired by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta's experiments with electricity on living beings. Filmmakers just took it as a given from knowing that...
It doesn't happen though lol
Because most of the early Frankenstein films were really using the play based on the novel rather than the novel as their main source. Consequently, it stuck in the minds of people who had no familiarity with the novel's content.
I'm can't see a reason not to adapt the book faithfully
They’d need to find a way to make the epistolary framework operate well for the movies.