Frankenstein: the restored cut reveals Victor's father's murder
The new Frankenstein: The Reborn Cut restores the scene where Victor kills his father, removed on James Cameron's advice.
Guillermo del Toro explained that the sequence where the young Victor Frankenstein murders his father, Leopold (played by Charles Dance), was removed from the original film cut. According to the director, it was at James Cameron's suggestion that the passage was cut, not out of fear of violence but because, he said, the audience would have trouble identifying with Victor. Cameron argued that if Victor kills his father, he would have already achieved his revenge and would have no reason to pursue immortality. Del Toro, however, kept the scene in the extended cut, the Frankenstein: The Reborn Cut, which adds eight and a half minutes to the film, bringing the runtime to 2 h 38 min. Most of the additions are in the first act, providing more context to the Frankenstein family. Source: What's on Netflix.