Frankenstein

Director Kevin Connor's painstaking TV-movie version of Mary Shelley's classic 19th-century philosophical horror novel overdoses on faithfulness to the source — the result is alternately fascinating and tedious. Rescued from an arctic ice floe, vengeful scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Alec Newman) tells his savior, Captain Walton (Donald Sutherland), the saga of how he found himself in such a dire situation. Flashbacks do the rest: Even as a child, Victor nurses an unnatural curiosity about re-animating the dead. As a university student, he neglects his family, his good friend, Henry Clerval (Dan Stevens) and his fiancée, Elizabeth (Nicole Lewis), in order to purs...