“Image Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix He’s alive! Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to bring back Frankenstein in a new, eerily creative way. Now streaming on Netflix, the new Frankenstein movie has a star-studded cast, and it’s based directly on author Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel of the same name. “The most important figure from”, — write: hollywoodlife.com
Image Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix He’s alive! Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to bring back Frankenstein in a new, eerily creative way. Now streaming on Netflix, the new Frankenstein movie has a star-studded cast, and it’s based directly on author Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel of the same name.
“The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family,” Guillermo said, according to Netflix’s Tudum. “And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”
Below, Hollywood Life has compiled all the details about the 2025 Frankenstein movie.
Credit: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025. Frankenstein Movie Release Date Guillermo’s Frankenstein premiered on Netflix on November 7, 2025. The film had its world premiere on August 30, 2025, at the Venice International Film Festival.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein Trailer
During Netflix’s Tudum 2025: The Live Event, the trailer for Frankenstein dropped. Though it was a brief compilation of scenes, fans held onto it as they waited for the film’s release.
Though the monster-creating story tends to take on a more horrific side in Hollywood renditions, Guillermo said his version is not a thriller.
“Somebody asked me the other day, ‘Does it have really scary scenes?’ the filmmaker said during a conversation at the Cannes Film Festival with composer Alexandre Desplat. “For the first time, I considered that. It’s an emotional story for me. It’s as personal as anything. I’m asking a question about being a father, being a son … I’m not doing a horror movie — ever. I’m not trying to do that.”
Frankenstein Netflix Cast The Frankenstein 2025 cast features some of the biggest names in showbusiness. Oscar Isaac is playing the main role of Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi is Frankenstein’s monster and Mia Goth is Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s fiancée.
Also in the Frankenstein 2025 cast is Christian Convery as young Victor, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorious, Felix Kammerer as Williams, Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson, David Bradley as Blind Man and Ralph Ineson as Professor Kempre