In the two hundred and seven years since Mary Shelly’s novel there have been 423 feature films featuring the monster. Guillermo del Toro completing the film ‘he was born to make’ since viewing  the film when he was seven.  In his recently released beautifully realized two and a half hour version, this gothic masterpiece casts Frankenstein as the monster, leaving the creature as an abused victim of Frankensteins obsessive desire to rise above the childhood abuse of his own father, a renowned surgeon.  Guillermo’s creature given unending life and suffering is bewildered empathetic lonely and angry after his creator tries to destroy him in frustration of its shortcomings. The film opens in the arctic where a Danish expedition discovers Frankenstein near death on the ice the creature nowhere to be seen. Hauling him on board he tells the captain his story how he created the creature  The creature soon appears at the ship looking for Frankenstein to confront him, calling him to account. His superhuman strength almost capsizes the ice stranded ship.The crew are all terrified unable to kill him. After recounting to the captain the entire story of the creature he created, it breaks into the cabin finally confronting his creator.  I’m not going to give away the ending. Other than to say it is quite different from all the other 423 previous versions. Del Toro has given human emotional depth to the creature missing from all of the predecessors and indeed created his own sumptuously enthralling unique version of this endlessly fascinating tale.