Netflix has released the full official trailer for director Guillermo del Toro's hotly anticipated new film Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac as the brilliant but tragically flawed mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein.
Del Toro has been telling interviewers for years about his enduring love for Mary Shelley's novel and his long-standing desire to direct a film that would capture the novel's sense of grand Miltonian tragedy. He loved the original script for Kenneth Branagh's 1994 adaptation, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but the final film, alas, deviated sharply from that script and was just not that good. After several false starts, del Toro finally signed on to film his vision for Netflix in 2023. He called this film “the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life,” at the Netflix Tudum event earlier this year, adding, “Monsters have become my personal belief system. There are strands of Frankenstein through my films.”
"It was a religion for me," del Toro said during a press conference at the film's world premiere in Venice last month. "Since I was a kid—I was raised very Catholic—I never quite understood the saints. And then when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood what a saint or a messiah looked like. So I've been following the creature since I was a kid, and I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world."
Per the official synopsis:
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.
In addition to Isaac, the cast includes Jacob Elordi as the Creature; Mia Goth as Elizabeth Lavenza, who is engaged to Victor's young brother William, played by William Kammerer; Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson; Christoph Waltz as Heinrich Harlander, uncle to Elizabeth and wealthy financer of Victor's experiments; Charles Dance as Victor's father Leopold; Lauren Collins as Victor's late mother Claire; David Bradley as the blind man; Sofia Galasso as the little girl; Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe; and Burn Gorman as Fritz.
The trailer looks every bit as mythically epic and visually lavish as del Toro said he wanted for his version. "I remember pieces, the Creature says in a voiceover as footage plays out. "Memories of different men. Then I saw it. Your name. Victor Frankenstein. My creator. I demand a single grace from you. If you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage."
We see lavish balls, Victor's Gothic laboratory, a ship trapped in Arctic ice, and lots and lots of consuming fire—everything one could want in a Frankenstein movie from a master of macabre mythologies.
Frankenstein hits theaters on October 17, 2025. It will start streaming on Netflix on November 7.
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