A perfectly modern Frankenstein: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011, Sony Pictures Classics)

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Notes

1. The male birth myth is central to Frankenstein’s narrative, but it features a great deal in horror films: “In his attempt to create life, the male womb monster of the horror film re‐creates an intrauterine mise‐en‐scène, a maternal landscape, which is symbolically his womb, his birth giving place. He gives physical form to an unconscious memory of his first home” (Creed, 2005, p. 42).