Review by CARROLL McCUNEWhen Mexican director Guillermo del Toro was a child, he watched Boris Karloff portraying Frankenstein with his Catholic grandmother. He was my Messiah.” At eleven-years-old, del Toro determined to one day make a Frankenstein movie himself. In order to project his own biography into the film, del Toro begins with a great deal of backstory about Victor’s father Leopold (Charles Dance). But before any of that would come to be—I had to kill him.”In Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein is well-motivated. “You, the great Victor Frankenstein, made a mistake?“ she mocked, after Frankenstein admitted that something had gone terribly wrong with his experiment.