How Guillermo Del Toro Pays Tribute To Boris Karloff In ‘Frankenstein’
The post How Guillermo Del Toro Pays Tribute To Boris Karloff In ‘Frankenstein’ appeared com. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 06: Guillermo del Toro attends Netflix’s “Frankenstein” Los Angeles Premiere on October 06, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. After opening in theaters on Oct. 17, del Toro’s new version of Frankenstein began streaming on Netflix on Friday. Karloff, of course, made Frankenstein’s Monster an iconic character in the history of horror movies if not all movies- in Universal Studios’ 1931 version of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale. Karloff reprised the character for two more Universal monster movies 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein and 1939’s Son of Frankenstein before handing off the role to Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange for future films from the studio. ForbesGuillermo Del Toro On His Lifelong Quest To Create ‘Frankenstein’By Tim Lammers The character of Frankenstein’s Monster, of course, has been featured in hundreds of films and television shows since then, including Christopher Lee’s portrayal in Hammer Horror’s The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 and Robert De Niro in director Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1994. There have been variations on the tale, too, including Mel Brooks’ comedy spoof Young Frankenstein in 1974, Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated film Frankenweenie in 2012, and Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ reanimation tale Poor Things in 2023. British actor Boris Karloff (1887 1969) as The Monster in a promotional portrait for ‘Frankenstein’, directed by James Whale, 1931.