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GenreDrama, Fantasy & Horror
RatedR
Runtime2 hr 29 mins
ReleasedOctober 17, 2025
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorGuillermo del Toro
StarringOscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth
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Frankenstein (2025)
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| Frankenstein's Details | |
| Genre | Drama, Fantasy & Horror |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 08/30/2025 (Venice); 10/17/2025 (United States); 11/07/2025 (Netflix) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 29 mins |
| Budget | $120M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Frankenstein's Interests | |
| General | Lightning, lab towers, Arctic ice, candlelit anatomy lessons, a very long coat. |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat, back with del Toro after The Shape of Water and Pinocchio. |
| Movies | Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Where the neck bolts began. |
| Television | Penny Dreadful. Victor, his Creature, and a whole lot of fog. |
| Heroes | Mary Shelley. She dreamed up the whole thing as a teenager. |
| Frankenstein's Crew | |
| Director | Guillermo del Toro |
| Writers | Guillermo del Toro |
| Producers | Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber |
| Cinematography | Dan Laustsen |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Edited By | Evan Schiff |
| Production | Double Dare You, Demilo Films, Bluegrass 7 |
| Distributed By | Netflix |
A reported $120 million buys a lot of velvet and stormy skies, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein wants you to admire every cent before it gets to the good part. Victor’s half is a long, gorgeous tour of gothic labs, swirling coats and Oscar Isaac acting very intensely, and at 149 minutes it takes its time. Mia Goth is stuck playing a symbol more than a person, and Christoph Waltz mostly bankrolls the experiment and smirks. Then the Creature takes over the telling, and the movie finds its soul. Jacob Elordi plays him like a newborn the size of a doorway: curious, gentle, terrified, learning to talk from a kind blind man played by David Bradley. Victor, meanwhile, is truly awful to the one being who wants nothing but kindness. Del Toro clearly loves his monster more than his scientist, and so will you. A 7.3 because the Creature’s half is beautiful and Victor’s half needed a ruthless editor. $586 says you finish it and feel a little guilty about every science fair project you ever abandoned.
What works: Jacob Elordi’s Creature is gentle and heartbreaking, and every frame looks handmade with obsessive care.
What doesn’t: Victor’s half of the story drags under its own gorgeous production design, and Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz get thin roles.
Who it’s for: Gothic romance fans and anyone who has always rooted for the monster.
Spoilers
The story catches up to the ship in the ice, where a dying Victor and his Creature finally face each other as something like father and son. Victor asks for forgiveness, and the Creature chooses mercy over revenge.
In 1857, a Danish ship stuck in Arctic ice takes in a badly hurt stranger: Baron Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac). Something enormous is coming across the ice after him. So Victor tells Captain Anderson (Lars Mikkelsen) the whole story. A brilliant, arrogant surgeon obsessed with beating death, he is bankrolled by arms dealer Henrich Harlander (Christoph Waltz) and falls for Elizabeth (Mia Goth), who is engaged to his brother William (Felix Kammerer). Then he stitches together a body, waits for lightning, and the Creature (Jacob Elordi) opens his eyes. Guillermo del Toro directs. One hundred fifty minutes, all of them gorgeous.
Anyone still waiting on a father's approval. Dress warm, it's the Arctic.
| Oscar Isaac | Baron Victor Frankenstein |
| Jacob Elordi | the Creature |
| Mia Goth | Lady Elizabeth Harlander |
| Felix Kammerer | William Frankenstein |
| David Bradley | the Blind Man |
| Lars Mikkelsen | Captain Anderson |
| Charles Dance | Baron Leopold Frankenstein |
| Christoph Waltz | Henrich Harlander |
| Kyle Gatehouse | the Young Hunter |
| Lauren Collins | Alma |
| Sofia Galasso | Anna-Maria |
| Ralph Ineson | Professor Krempe |
| Burn Gorman | an executioner from whom Victor obtains the remains of decea |
| Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Chief Officer Larsen |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.4 / 10 (342,225 votes) → 7.4 / 10 (342,369 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +320 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $144K; Profit / loss (est.) -$179.9M; Rotten Tomatoes 85%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 85% (381 reviews); Metacritic 78 / 100; IMDb users 7.4 / 10 (342,225 votes); movie.guru score 8.4.
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