Out Now - Frankenstein: The Complete Screenplay

Frankenstein: The Complete Screenplay

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Written By: Guillermo del Toro

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$29.99

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 11/25/2025

ISBN: 9798337400167

Pages: 240

Trim Size: 8.5 x 11

Description 

Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro, delves deep into the timeless tragedy of Victor Frankenstein—from his grisly experiments and the destruction wrought in their wake to his quest for redemption in the frigid Arctic—in this unforgettable reimagining of one of the most iconic literary works of all time.

Featuring stunning concept art, film stills, and behind-the-scenes photography, this official reproduction of the film’s complete screenplay invites readers into del Toro’s world as the classic story was adapted for the screen. With nuanced character development and poignant dialogue, the script brings fresh life to Shelley’s tale, exploring like never before the fractured relationship between creator and creation. From the tormented Victor Frankenstein to his tragic monster, del Toro’s unique artistic voice shines through every page, offering an immersive experience for fans of both the original novel and del Toro’s cinematic genius.

About the Author

Guillermo del Toro, Author: Guillermo del Toro is the acclaimed director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. His Strain novels are international best sellers. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, kids, dog, cat, and rat.

Art and Making of del Toro's Frankenstein - Out Now

Frankenstein

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Written By: Sheila O'Malley, Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac

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$75.00

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 10/28/2025

ISBN: 9798886638912

Pages: 320PP+1x6PP+1x8PP

Trim Size: 9.25 x 12.75

Description 

Dive into the mesmerizing world of the highly anticipated film Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro, with the exclusive Art and Making of Frankenstein. This stunning volume offers an extensive behind-the-scenes look at the creative genius of del Toro and his collaborators—including his all-star cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and more—and showcases breathtaking concept art, an array of period-specific props, locations, costumes, and deep insights into the filmmaking process. Discover the visionary interpretations of classic characters, the meticulous craftsmanship that brings them to life, and the rich thematic layers that define this reimagining of Mary Shelley's timeless tale. Combining in-depth commentary with unparalleled set access, this insightful book will provide a deeper understanding of Del Toro’s legendary creative process. Exclusive interviews with the director, cast, and production crew are paired with candid set photos, exclusive storyboards, costumes, and concept artwork. This book is a must-have for fans of del Toro, film enthusiasts, and art lovers alike. Immerse yourself in the darkly enchanting universe of Frankenstein and witness the magic of storytelling through the lens of one of cinema's most imaginative directors. The book will also contain del Toro’s own developmental sketches of the monster from his legendary notebooks and over twelve unique ephemera items inserted by hand into each book.

GOTHIC CLASSIC: The story that birthed an entire genre, Frankenstein is the quintessential gothic masterpiece. Now, experience as never before through the unique vision of Director Guillermo del Toro, who has dreamt his whole life of making this film.

VISIONARY DIRECTOR: Known as the master of monsters, Guillermo del Toro’s unique blend of beauty and horror make a perfect marriage with the tale of Victor Frankenstein’s tragic, thrilling and human Monster.

BREATHTAKING VISUALS: This deluxe coffee table book will feature exclusive storyboards, concept art, behind-the-scenes photography, and film stills to go along with interviews and insights from the creative teams.

About the Authors

Sheila O'Malley, Author: Sheila O'Malley is a film critic and culture writer. She has been reviewing films for Rogerebert.com since 2013, and has also written for Film Comment, The New York Times, Sight & Sound, and the Criterion Collection. She's a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. 

Guillermo del Toro, Foreword: Guillermo del Toro is the acclaimed director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. His Strain novels are international best sellers. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, kids, dog, cat, and rat.

New Book - Remaking the Monster: Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature

Remaking the Monster: Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature

Alissa Burger (Author)

Full details and ordering information at https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/remaking-the-monster-9781666970258/.

Description

In Remaking the Monster, Alissa Burger adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the continued influence of Frankenstein's Creature on popular culture, demonstrating through close readings the necessity of reconsidering its role and meaning as it has changed over time.

Since the Creature's introduction to the horror genre's canon, proliferating and evolving for over a century across a variety of media formats and genres, Burger posits that each new iteration of its appearance and impact encourages audiences to (re)consider critical questions about society and about ourselves. What are we capable of-both good and bad? What care, if any, do we owe to one another? And how might a monstrous appearance belie a deeper truth?

Ultimately, Burger argues, wherever and however the Creature appears, part of its innate function-and perhaps, the key to its perennial resonance with audiences-is found in the approachable opportunity to engage with daunting concepts of life and death, choice, agency, and, above all, what it means to be human.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: THEMES

1. Boris Karloff as the Creature

2. Encountering the Creature

3. A Community of Monsters

4. Gothic Prestige

5. The Desirable Creature

PART II: FORMATS

6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives

7. The Animated Creature

8. Board Games

9. Video Games

10. Creating the Creature

Conclusion

About the Author

Index

Product details

Published Feb 05 2026

Format Hardback

Edition 1st

Extent 240

ISBN 9781666970258

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic

Dimensions 9 x 6 inches

Series Villains and Creatures: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Tropes

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the Author

Biography

Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, specializing in gender, horror, and the Gothic. She is the author of IT, Chapters One & Two (2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (2021), Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (2016) and The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007 (2012).

Recent from Applause - Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

Bruce G. Hallenbeck (Author)

Full details and ordering information at https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/blazing-saddles-meets-young-frankenstein-9781493078004/. 

Description

An in-depth look at the 1974 releases of Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein that will leave cinephiles enthralled.

1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his career, he pulled off a one-two punch that saw the release of two of the most beloved American comedies ever made: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Although both films are well-known, the stories beyond the making of each movie are less so. How did they come to be, and how did the era’s culture and politics not only permit them to be made, but help them to become enduring comedy classics?

With their riotous parodies of Westerns and classic horror movies, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were not only hilarious. They played with charged social and cultural themes in an inimitable way, raising the bar for modern comedies even as they reshaped the two genres they were sending up. Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks explores in depth the zeitgeist and cinematic alchemy that led to 1974 becoming “the year of Mel Brooks.”

Product details

Published Nov 12 2024

Format Paperback

Edition 1st

Extent 272

ISBN 9781493078004

Imprint Applause

Illustrations 25 Color Photos

Dimensions 0 x 0 inches

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the Author

Bruce G. Hallenbeck is an author, actor, and screenwriter whose films include Vampyre, Fangs, and The Drowned. His many books on film history include The Hammer Frankenstein, Rock’n’Roll Monsters: The American International Story, and Poe Pictures. Hallenbeck has also acted in such features as Shadow Tracker, Edge of Reality, and Project D: Classified. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Rosa, two cats, and several ghosts.

Film and Media Reviewers Needed (Especially for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein) (4/3/2026)

Film and Media Reviewers Needed (Especially for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein)

deadline for submissions:
April 3, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19)

contact email:
jpc0018@uah.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/03/film-and-media-reviewers-needed-especially-for-guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein


The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.

The editors of I19 also welcome thoughtful, critically engaged 1500-2500 word media reviews of classic and contemporary films, streaming tv shows, video games and more that incorporate "incredible nineteenth-century" elements into both their forms and/or content. Blended historical genres like steampunk, neovictorianism, and magical realism are welcome. The media text might be set in the nineteenth century (ex. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, dir. Timur Bekmambetov [2015]) or 'haunted" by facets of nineteenth-century culture such as its legacy of slavery (Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele [2017]), its settler colonialism (Blood Quantum, dir. Jeff Baranaby [2019]), its fairy tales (the Bluebeard narratives of The Piano or In the Cut, dir. Jane Campion [1993, 2003] or its literary traditions (The Invisible Man, dir. Leigh Wannell [2020]). Recent issues have featured reviews of several garden-focused titles in the "Cozy Victorian" video game genre, orientalism in House of Dragons, and a French/British co-production of War of the Worlds, and a Turkish adaptation of Frankenstein set in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

For the Spring 2026 issue, we already have a reviewer for Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), but we are very interested in having someone review monster-movie auteur Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Netflix. Please contact me if you are interested - ideally someone would not just review the film but place its adaptation in dialogue with Shelley's original.

We are always happy to accept individual reviews of a classic or new film, video game, or streaming series, but we are also very excited to work with contributors who might want to provide an "overview" of some cultural trend that can be traced across several media texts or multiple works by an individual director. Contributors working on cultural texts from marginalized communities or focused on media productions in global contexts beyond the Anglosphere are especially encouaged to submit.

Please reach out to Joe Conway (jpc0018@uah.edu) for inquiries and submissions. Draft of submissions are needed by April 3 for the next issue.



Last updated January 6, 2026

CFP Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman (2/13/2026; Madrid 4/23-24/2026)

Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman

deadline for submissions:
February 13, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Saint Louis University Madrid

contact email:
olivia.badoi@slu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/03/monstrous-bodies-from-frankenstein-to-the-posthuman

Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman

Saint Louis University Madrid, April 23-24, 2026

Two centuries after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein first posed urgent questions about creation, responsibility, and what constitutes the human, we find ourselves once again confronting transgressive bodies that challenge boundaries—and monsters that reflect our deepest anxieties about the essence of humanity. Classic monsters are being reimagined with renewed urgency: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) explicitly rejects AI and digital technology in favor of "old-fashioned craftsmanship" and practical effects, while Robert Eggers' Nosferatu (2024) and Luc Besson's Dracula (2025) resurrect the vampire to explore psychological trauma, isolation, and the burden of immortality—Eggers through the lens of female agency and Victorian pathologization, Besson through existential tragedy and centuries of alienation.

Meanwhile, body horror has emerged as a dominant mode of cultural critique, from films like The Substance (2024) that weaponize visceral transformation to expose ageism and misogyny, to literary works like Rahel Yoder´s Nightbitch (2021), Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy (2023), or Jade Song's Chlorine (2023).

These works arrive at a crucial juncture: the Age of AI has intensified anxieties about what defines human intelligence, creativity, embodiment, and consciousness. In an era when machines can generate art, hold conversations, and simulate human thought, the figure of the monster—whether Frankenstein's creature, the vampire, or the body-in-transformation—becomes a powerful lens for examining the boundaries of the human.

This conference brings together foundational and emerging scholarship in monster studies, posthumanism, and body theory. Drawing on Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Theory" (1996), Susan Stryker on trans monstrosity as resistance, and N. Katherine Hayles on posthuman embodiment, we examine how contemporary monsters challenge boundaries of the human. The conference engages established critical posthumanist frameworks (Haraway, Braidotti, Alaimo, Wolfe) alongside emerging voices pushing these conversations forward—including Oxana Timofeeva's work on the "non-human as such" that challenges posthumanism's own anthropocentrism, and Maria Hlavajova's explorations of art's role in posthuman futures. We particularly welcome papers that analyze how monstrous bodies function as sites of struggle, medical intervention, and cultural inscription—or that explore how monstrosity offers modes of resistance, reimagining boundaries of the human.

Possible Topics Include:

Monster Theory and the Posthuman Condition

• The monster as cultural symptom in contemporary posthuman theory (Alaimo, Braidotti, Haraway)
• Viral monsters and contagion narratives in the wake of pandemic experience
• AI anxiety and the return of the created monster in 21st-century Gothic

Bodies Under Capitalism

• Beauty terror and age horror in The Substance and contemporary body horror cinema
• Monstrous transformations as critiques of late capitalism and neoliberal body politics
• Wellness culture, optimization, and the production of the "failed" body

Gothic Feminisms and Queer Monstrosity

• Victorian anxieties reimagined: female agency and pathologization in Eggers' Nosferatu
• Trans embodiment and monstrous becoming in contemporary speculative fiction
• Reproductive horror and the monstrous-feminine from Rosemary's Baby to Titane

Disability and Monstrous Embodiment

• Crip monstrosity and the rejection of cure narratives
• Prosthetic bodies and cyborg identities in science fiction
• Mad studies approaches to the "monstrous" mind

Race, Colonialism, and the Monstrous Other

• Decolonizing monster studies: indigenous perspectives on shapeshifting and transformation
• The zombie as racial metaphor from Haiti to Get Out
• Afrofuturist reimaginings of monstrous embodiment

Technology, Creation, and Responsibility

• Laboratory life: from Shelley's workshop to CRISPR and synthetic biology
• Digital ghosts and virtual monsters in the age of deepfakes
• The ethics of creation "without responsibility" in AI and biotechnology

Environmental Monsters and Multispecies Encounters

• Climate horror and monstrous ecologies in the Anthropocene
• Fungal networks, viral agencies, and more-than-human monsters
• Toxic bodies and chemical transformations in environmental justice narratives

Submission Guidelines

We welcome proposals for:

• Individual papers (20 minutes)
• Pre-formed panels (3-4 papers)
• Creative presentations and performances
• Roundtable discussions

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with a brief biographical note (100 words), to olivia.badoi@slu.edu by February 13.


Last updated November 3, 2025