10 November 2025 - Guillermo del Toro's take on 'Frankenstein'
Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama
Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian, 30/08/2025)
Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature.
‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Creature Rises
Alissa Wilkinson (The New York Times, 16/10/2025)
When Mary Shelley first published her novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” in 1818, its title page was printed with a telling epigraph from “Paradise Lost,” in which a despairing Adam rebukes God: “Did I request thee, Maker from my Clay / To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” Did I ask you to make me? the creation demands of his creator. I never asked to be here, and now you condemn me to this life of pain."
‘Frankenstein’: How Close Is Guillermo del Toro’s Film to the Original Novel? A Mary Shelley Expert Answers Our Burning Questions
Elisse Shafer (Variety, 08/11/2025)
Guillermo del Toro has often said that Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” is like his Bible. Now, he’s brought his vision to life with the release of his own film adaptation on Netflix, starring Oscar Isaac as mad genius Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature.
Frankenstein is the monster (movie) Guillermo del Toro was born to bring to life
Glen Weldon (NPR, 18/10/2025)
Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who reject them. Hellboy (2004) was a half-demon with a full heart.
Poster for "Frankenstein" (2025) © Netflix. Ecran Large.