An Honest Trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

Frankenstein was in theaters for only three weeks and made less than half a million dollars. To be fair, that limited run in select theaters was just enough to make the movie eligible for awards, because it's a Netflix movie. Guillermo Del Toro spent years imagining a Frankenstein film that stayed closer to Mary Shelley's original story, and this is it. Still, "closer" is a relative term. As this Honest Trailer points out, the philosophical questions of life and death and playing God are contemplative in the book, but screamed out in the movie, because who has time for subtlety these days?  

Frankenstein looks closely into Victor Frankenstein's background and upbringing, but doesn't try to make him a sympathetic villain. The creature he creates is sadly immortal. And the one woman in the main cast has romantic connections to three of the men, including the creature. Screen Junkies finds plenty to pick on in this Honest Trailer, but it leaves me wanting to see the movie. Just not enough to pay for Netflix.