本片以伊果的角度為出發點，敘述維多弗蘭肯斯坦，也就是我們俗稱的「科學怪人」，如何從怪物變成人類的經過。

Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.