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Guillermo del Toro had been trying to make a Frankenstein film for more than two decades, describing the story as a personal touchstone he first connected with as a child. He has repeatedly called the creature the defining figure of his imaginative life, and the finished film functions as a summation of themes he has chased across his entire career.
Jacob Elordi took on the role of the Creature after Andrew Garfield, originally cast, departed the production over scheduling. Elordi endured many hours in the makeup chair for each shooting day as prosthetics artists built the creature's look piece by piece, a deliberately beautiful and sorrowful design rather than a grotesque one.
Del Toro leaned heavily on practical filmmaking, commissioning vast physical sets and tangible effects instead of relying on computer imagery. The approach extended to the laboratory and creation sequences, which were staged with real machinery and in-camera techniques to give the film the tactile, handcrafted texture the director is known for.
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is the culmination of a lifelong obsession — a lavish, deeply personal adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel that the Oscar-winning director had dreamed of making since childhood. Oscar Isaac stars as Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and arrogant scientist whose hubris drives him to conquer death itself, while Jacob Elordi plays the tragic Creature he assembles and then abandons. Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Charles Dance round out an ensemble that treats Shelley's Gothic parable of creation and responsibility with operatic grandeur.
True to del Toro's sensibility, the film is a sumptuous work of practical craftsmanship, built around enormous physical sets, handcrafted creature effects, and painterly cinematography rather than digital spectacle. Del Toro reframes the familiar story as a mournful tragedy told from two perspectives — the maker's and the made — locating genuine pathos in a Creature who is less monster than abandoned child. It is at once a horror film, a lament for fractured fathers and sons, and a meditation on mortality that reflects the director's own preoccupations.
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival to a lengthy standing ovation, Frankenstein was praised as one of del Toro's most ambitious and emotionally resonant works, extending the monster-as-outsider empathy that has defined his career from The Shape of Water to Pan's Labyrinth. Released in select theaters before arriving on Netflix, it stands as a definitive modern rendering of a story that helped invent science fiction. It streams on Netflix.
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