Mexican director Guillermo del Toro premiered his big-budget film “Frankenstein” yesterday Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, noting before its world premiere that he had dreamed of directing it since childhood.

Del Toro previously won the festival’s top prize in 2017 for another creature born on Venice screens, the aquatic being in “The Shape of Water,” which also earned him an Oscar.

Del Toro’s film, adapted from Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, aims to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and is among 21 competing works.

Speaking at a press conference hours before the film’s screening, del Toro said, “I’ve been following this creature since I was a child. I always waited for the right conditions to produce the film, both creatively and in terms of scale, to make it different and to rebuild the entire world.”

He mentioned currently suffering from “postpartum depression.” It was no coincidence that the film’s world premiere took place on “Frankenstein Day,” the birthday of the novel’s author Mary Shelley on August 30.

The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature he created, presenting a bold gothic scene.

Following the obsessed scientist and his creature, the film explores themes of humanity, revenge, wild will, and the consequences of hubris.

Since James Whale’s 1931 “Frankenstein” starring Boris Karloff, many adaptations of the novel have been made.

These ranged from serious ones like Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” to Mel Brooks’ satirical 1974 “Young Frankenstein.”

Del Toro believes Mary Shelley’s novel tries to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human?”

At the press conference, he said, “I think the film tries to show imperfect characters and our right to remain imperfect, and our right to understand each other under the harshest conditions.”

He added, “There is no more urgent task than preserving our humanity in a time when everything tends toward a bipolar understanding of our humanity.”

The film, produced by Netflix, will have a limited theatrical release in October before becoming available online in November.