Last weekend, Paul McGuigan’s film Victor Frankenstein opened to rather pitiful box office. Its opening-weekend $2.4 million gross was good enough for a meager 12th-place finish, well behind several films that had already been in release for one or more weeks.

Critics haven’t been any kinder to McGuigan’s latest; Victor Frankenstein currently rates only 26 percent on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Indeed, the seven feature films of Paul McGuigan have not, on the whole, been particularly successful at the box office or in the critical eye.