Monster movies come in strange bunches. Vampires dominated the screen in the 2010s, as gritty zombie hordes had the decade before that. Lately, we’re awash in Frankensteins, each adding stylized flavor to Mary Shelley’s novel: Zelda Williams’s goofy high-school version, Lisa Frankenstein ; Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk reimagining, Poor Things ; and Guillermo Del Toro’s faithful-to-a-fault take , currently up for nine Oscars. All used Shelley’s tale to sow sympathy for the creature, a relatable