‘Frankenstein’ Trailer: Jacob Elordi’s Monster Revealed With Chilling Narration (VIDEO)

Kelli Boyle October 1, 2025, 10:30 am

It’s alive! And it’s coming to theaters! The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein has arrived, and it delivers a chilling introduction to Jacob Elordi‘s monster — a performance that’s already garnering high praise from film festival screenings.

“Only monsters play God,” the trailer warns as Elordi’s monster hunts for his maker, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac). The monster is resentful of his creation and the ire it brings him.

“My creator, I demand a single grace from you,” Elordi growls in the trailer above. “If you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage.”

When the Creature and his maker are face to face in an icy landscape, the monster lights the frame with a stick of dynamite, illuminating his face just enough to see the rage in his eyes as he tells Victor, “Now run.”

Oscar-winning director 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. Frankenstein is a Netflix movie, but it will have a theatrical release. Here’s everything you need to know about when and how to see it in theaters and on Netflix.

When does Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein come out?

Frankenstein is released on Friday, October 17, in select theaters, and on Friday, November 7, on Netflix.

Is there a Frankenstein trailer?

Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in 'Frankenstein'

Ken Woroner / Netflix

Yes. Netflix unveiled the first teaser trailer during their annual Tudum presentation on May 31. The official trailer was fittingly debuted on October 1. Take a look at the gorgeously shot monster epic at the top of the page.

Is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein coming out in theaters?

Yes, del Toro confirmed on BlueSky in November 2024 that Frankenstein is getting a theatrical release. He simply said, “Frankenstein will have a theatrical run” in response to a post from Vanity Fair. The Oscar-winning director didn’t note the length of the theatrical run.

Who is in the Frankenstein 2025 cast?

Mia Goth as Elizabeth and Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in 'Frankenstein'

Ken Woroner / Netflix

Del Toro’s Frankenstein stars Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster, Mia Goth as Elizabeth, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorius, Felix Kammerer as William, Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson, Charles Dance, Ralph Ineson, Burn Gorman, and David Bradley.

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Frankenstein marks a return to the gothic romance genre for the Crimson Peak director. His 2017 film, The Shape of Water, won Best Picture and Best Director and more, but was a romance within horror instead of gothic romance. Del Toro’s animated Pinocchio film (2022) also won Best Animated Feature at the 2023 Oscars. Pinocchio, his Cabinet of Curiosities series, and the Oscar-nominated film Nightmare Alley were all Netflix releases. Frankenstein is the director’s latest collaboration with the streamer.

Del Toro’s films are often lauded for their production design (The Shape of Water won an Oscar for this as well). He said that architectural ruins are a major piece of the storytelling for Frankenstein.

“Gothic romance was born partially out of the fascination with ruins,” he told Vanity Fair for the film’s first preview in November. “Sometimes they’re more beautiful than the building complete because it’s the clash of creation and destruction.”

See more photos from Frankenstein below.