Tamara Deverell, production designer for Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," described her awe upon seeing the nearly completed set of Victor Frankenstein's lab.
I walked into the lab set when we were just finishing it, and I was like, 'It … it's alive!
The massive laboratory, set atop a Scottish stone tower with a large round window, features intricate apparatus and a malformed body on an operating table, embodying del Toro's vision of a handcrafted epic.
I wanted a handmade movie of an epic scale
Del Toro told AP. Del Toro's adaptation, a $120 million Netflix epic, merges various filmmaking arts.
one big group of monster makers
Author's summary: Del Toro's Frankenstein is a handcrafted epic.