Guillermo del Toro

It's one of the great Frankenstein comedies.

movies ever made.

It is so much its own identity that people believe erroneously that the blind hermit comes from young Frankenstein sometimes.

And it comes obviously from the novel and from Bride of Frankenstein, the whale movie, which is an exquisite sequel to the first Frankenstein.

Always a pleasure, and thank you for the wisdom and the careful guiding of this lengthy interview, which I adored every second of.

I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass.

And I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was going to be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.

Well, it was curiously enough on a Sunday after Catholic Mass, we came back home and then we would watch horror movies on Channel 6 all day.

And it was the first time I saw Frankenstein.

And the moment Boris Karloff crossed the threshold...

I had an epiphany.

I had a St.

Paul on the road to Damascus kind of experience.

I realized I understood my faith or my dogmas better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass.

I saw the resurrection of the flesh, the Immaculate Conception, ecstasy, stigmata.

Everything made sense, and I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was going to be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.

It was a really profound transformation, and it made an impression that lasted my whole life.

Well, I saw it as a son when I saw it first, and now I see it as a father.

And more poignantly, I have become my father.

whilst trying to run away from the same mistakes of absence or, you know, mysterious emotions that I couldn't figure out as a kid.