Alexandre Desplat, the composer, considers Frankenstein the third of a triptych with del Toro, following The Shape of Water and Pinocchio. For each, Desplat has conjured lyrical, emotional scores that articulate an unspoken yearning in the central characters: the creature, the puppet and the monster.

“I need to bring out their unspoken voice, their unspoken emotions,” Desplat says. “That’s why in the score there’s a large orchestra that plays big sometimes, with restraint sometimes. But on top of that there’s a beautiful violin player, the violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing from Norway, for whom I wrote very pure lines which expresses the most beautiful emotions of the creature.”