New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- In Guillermo del Toro's new film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, when Dr Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) demonstrates his method for re-animating dead tissue, the assembled noblemen are outraged. "Ungodly", "an abomination", "a crime against God". A bloody torso strapped to a pair of batteries, twitching and sparking like Luigi Galvani's electrified frog-legs-a monstrous vision. But as is often the case with del Toro's films, far bigger monstrosities lie within man's wicked heart. Henrich Harlander (Christoph Waltz), an arms dealer, promises to supply Frankenstein with body parts harvested from corpses during the ongoing Crimean War, which has proven to be quite profitable for Harlander. The irony is clea...