Frankenstein: First Clip From Guillermo del Toro’s Long-Awaited Monster Epic | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

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Jim Vejvoda Oct 15, 2025 · 2 mins read
Frankenstein: First Clip From Guillermo del Toro’s Long-Awaited Monster Epic | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
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IGN Fan Fest can exclusively reveal the very first clip from director Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which can be viewed via the player below. This is the key scene from the Frankenstein mythos: the stormy experiment that gives birth to Frankenstein’s monster!

In the clip, Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) works feverishly in his lab to harness the electricity from a lightning storm so he can reanimate the husk of stitched-together human flesh that will become The Creature (Jacob Elordi).

In addition to Issac’s intense performance, the clip also showcases Tamara Deverell’s detailed production design for Victor’s laboratory, one of the film’s key settings.

“To bring Frankenstein’s lab to life, Deverell used an abandoned water tower. Stretching several stories upward, the lab features marble floors, a custom-fabricated metal spiral staircase, and an enormous circular window that dominates one wall,” according to the film’s production notes.

“The circular detail mirrors both the top of the tower, which is open to the elements, and a round grate set into the floor (del Toro aficionados will recognize the rounded window motif from his earlier films, including The Shape of Water and Crimson Peak). ‘You’ll see a lot of circle motifs, which, to Guillermo, represents the circle of life, the beginning, the end, the endless ouroboros, the snake eating its tail,’ Deverell says.”

Of course, Victor Frankenstein’s mad experiment is one of the most anticipated sequences in any adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, from Colin Clive shouting “It’s alive!!” in the iconic scene from 1931’s Frankenstein to Gene Wilder bringing Peter Boyle’s monster to life in Mel Brooks’ hilarious Young Frankenstein.

It’s taken two decades for Guillermo del Toro to bring his Frankenstein to the screen so take a look back at the film’s journey and its various past developments leading up to Frankenstein's release in theaters on October 17 and streaming premiere on Netflix on November 7.

IGN’s Scott Collura awarded del Toro’s film a 9 out of 10 score in his Frankenstein review, declaring “it does not disappoint. The filmmaker puts all of his skills to bear in this spin on the Mary Shelley story as he goes for a tale of tragedy, romance, and redemption rather than a straight horror flick. Which isn’t to say that there isn’t plenty of gore or creepy moments, but that’s the trimmings of this film, as blood-red as they are. No, del Toro’s really interested in – to paraphrase the Creature – why violence so often feels inevitable. And what it takes to stop it.“