Frankenstein’s Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi power most epic film Netflix will ever have

I’ve seen Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation for Netflix, and it’s just the juicy gothic saga I hoped for, mightily powered by the dynamite duo of Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.

Del Toro has been keen to make his own version of Mary Shelly’s tale of an inventor who lives to regret his ambition and creation for decades.

And it’s a match made in heaven, with the Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker granted the scope and scale he needed to make another of his elaborate, exquisitely-designed worlds – and in that regard, it hasn’t come a moment too soon.

I also doubt Netflix will ever get to own a movie as truly epic, imaginative and cinematic as this again; it is a shame to confine it to the small screen of streaming so soon.

Frankenstein is as vibrant, dramatic and macabre as I expected, with deviations from the original tale which work well to support the movie as a dark study of life and death that’s better suited to the screen.

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Opening in ‘the farthermost north’, we begin at the atmospheric and frozen end of the story with Victor Frankenstein (Isaac) and his creature (Elordi), hunting each other.