Little White Lies / 110

LWLies 110:  The Frankenstein Issue

Inside the issue…

 

Lead review: Frankenstein

Sophie Monks Kaufman grapples with Guillermo del Toro’s febrile, philosophical and tender melodrama.

 

Wildest Dreamer

Hannah Strong goes face to face with writer/​director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally realise a dream project.

 

Creature Comforts

Jacob Elordi opens up about finding humanity and empathy in playing Victor Frankenstein’s cursed Creature.

 

Heart on a Slab

Oscar Isaac dissects one of classic literature’s most notorious and complex scientists in conversation with Hannah Strong.

 

The Quiet Woman

Rafa Sales Ross meets the great Mia Goth, whose sombre presence in Frankenstein gives the film a shot of melancholy.

 

Building the Monster

David Jenkins meets costume designer Kate Hawley and production designer Tamara Deverell to find out how they extracted images from Guillermo del Toro’s lively imagination.

 

Weird Science

Will Sloan tabulates 10 of the strangest screen adaptations of Mary Shelley’s epochal 1818 novel.

 

Blood & Ink

Jake Cole writes in praise of comic artist Bernie Wrightson and his influential graphic version of‘Frankenstein’.

 

Anatomy of Hell

Illustrator and tattoo artist Sophie Mo takes a journey inside some of Guillermo del Toro’s most memorable monsters.

 

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Little White Lies launched in 2005 with the sole aim of creating a magazine that captures the excitement of talking about movies with good friends by bringing together impassioned, intelligent writing with striking illustration. Each issue of the magazine dedicates its entire front section to an upcoming theatrical release, drawing inspiration from the themes and visual tone of the carefully selected film. The back section features essential reviews of the latest movie releases, plus exclusive interviews, festival reports and more