Release Date
October 17, 2025 (Limited)
Digital Date
November 7, 2025 (Netflix)
Director
Guillermo del Toro
Writer
Guillermo del Toro
Cast
Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Christoph Waltz
Studio
Running Time
149 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for bloody violence and grisly images
What is Frankenstein about?
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
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Guillermo del Toro is known for visually arresting and darkly imaginative creations. For GDT fans, he can do no wrong. I, however, am not one to give the director a free pass—I’ve loved some of his work, while finding chunks of his resume to be missing “something”—so let’s be clear: Frankenstein is indeed visually arresting and darkly imaginative, and it is certainly well executed, but it’s a film missing the emotional heft you’d expect from something of this order. To call it soulless would be wholly incorrect; to call it soul-limited would be reasonable.
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