Del Toro brings lumbering life to his beastly vision

GUILLERMO del Toro has been desperate to write and direct his reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for decades.

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And now the Oscar-winner, best known for his macabre fantasy flicks, has had his wish come true.

Oscar Isaac stars as a particularly charismatic Victor Frankenstein, playing with Promethean fire in an unnatural quest to extend life through the reanimation of corpses.

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Funded by Christoph Waltz's arms manufacturer, he tinkers with the oozing flesh of fallen soldiers and hanged convicts in a sacrilegious attempt at playing God, before it comes back to bite him hard.