Last year brought a fresh take on the Dracula story with Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Now, Guillermo del Toro, widely considered the greatest modern monster movie director, is sharing his version of another classic monster with this year’s Frankenstein. The film, featuring Oscar Isaac as the scientist who digs up bodies, will have a limited release in theaters in October, followed by its availability on Netflix in November. That’s coming up quickly! However, we’ve only gotten brief glimpses of Jacob Elordi as the creature… UNTIL NOW! (Got you!) Netflix just released a poster showing the creature in all its undead glory.
I first spotted this poster over at Gizmodo, and it’s seriously impressive. It really focuses on Jacob Elordi’s look – his long, stringy hair, pale and thin face, and those deeply sunken eyes. But the most striking part? We finally get a glimpse of his hand, and it looks like the flesh has been completely torn away. It’s fantastic! It reminds me a lot of the creature Rory Kinnear played in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, which I loved. Honestly, I’m really happy with how it looks. Guillermo del Toro has explained that his adaptation will stay much truer to Mary Shelley’s original novel than the older Universal films. So, no silly flat tops or neck bolts – thankfully!
The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Some viewers thought it wasn’t as frightening as they’d anticipated, and Guillermo del Toro was prepared to address that. “Someone asked me recently, are there truly scary moments?” del Toro explained at Cannes. “It made me think about that for the first time. This is a deeply emotional story, very personal to me. I’m exploring themes of fatherhood and being a son… I’m not making a horror film-not at all, and that’s not my intention.”
We don’t care! Give us all the GDT and monsters. Frankenstein hits Netflix November 7.
Kyle Anderson works as the Senior Editor at TopMob. He also leads the weekly podcast, Laser Focus, where he takes a close look at pop culture. Check out his reviews of films and TV shows here. You can also find him on Letterboxd.
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2025-10-01 00:33