All AP English students have been forced to read “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley at one point in their educational careers.

Some hated the book, others loved it.

But either way, everyone is sure to love the latest big screen rendition of the novel, “Victor Frankenstein,” which stars Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy as Igor (Frankenstein’s assistant) and Frankenstein himself.

The movie starts off with a scene from the end, a disturbing image of what appears to be a body hanging by some ropes. Igor narrates this scene, and then it cuts to a circus, of all places.

The story then begins to focus on a hunchback clown in the circus. The hunchback has no name and is treated with cruelty by his fellow circus members.

That all changes one day when his crush, Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay), falls from her trapeze and breaks her collarbone. The hunchback resets her bone and saves her life.

An onlooker, who is a college student studying to be a doctor, sees this and decides to rescue him from the circus.

Once they are free, the man introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein.

Back at his home, Frankenstein cures the hunchback so that he can stand straight for the first time in his life. The hunchback cleans himself up and takes on the name of Frankenstein’s missing housemate: Igor.

Frankenstein enlists Igor to help him with his project, and Igor, of course, agrees because, in his eyes at least, Frankenstein created him.

The pair travel down a dark path. Along the way, Igor learns more about himself and evolves into his own person.

Overall, I would say this movie was a success. The actors are superb and completely become the characters they are playing.

Viewers feel the raw emotion from both actors and sympathize with each character’s conflicts, both internal and external, throughout the movie.

In the end, audiences will root for both to do the right thing and conquer the monster, no matter who, or what, that may be.

The director, Paul McGuigan, also did a fantastic job, both with giving the whole movie a gloomy feel and with the opening scene.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves a suspenseful thriller, which makes one question what is right and wrong and who is good and bad.

To me, this movie is worth four out of five stars.