Jacob Elordi’s Creature Unmasked in “Frankenstein” Official Trailer, + New Images of Guillermo del Toro’s Adaptation

By The Credits | October 3, 2025

The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein finally revealed the stunning transformation of Jacob Elordi into Frankenstein’s Monster. This is the longest look yet at Del Toro’s passion project, which is firmly told from the Monster’s perspective, as he openly wrestles with the torture of having the memories of multiple people in his head and the general confusion and horror at having been stitched together and electrocuted back into a fractured life. Elordi is, of course, all but unrecognizable—the prosthetics and makeup team, made up of artists like Jordan Samuel (makeup department head who has worked with Del Toro on The Shape of Water) and Megan Many (prosthetics supervisor and key prosthetics make-up artist and a collaborator from Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley), have done excellent work. In the final trailer, the Monster—or, technically, the Creature as he’s called here—is on a mission to find his creator, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), and demands an audience with him or else. Del Toro is, of course, one of the most perfectly suited visionaries to enliven a fresh adaptation of Mary Shelley’s deathless novel, one of the most adapted stories ever told. It’s an adaptation he’s been thinking about for years.

Joining Isaac and Elordi are Mia Goth as Victor’s financée, Elisabeth, Christoph Waltz as Harlander (a new character not in Shelley’s book), Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe, Charles Dance as Victor’s father, Leopold Frankenstein, and Felix Kammerer as Victor’s younger brother, William Frankenstein. The trailer includes plenty of icy moments, which was one of the things Del Toro was committed to doing—returning Frankenstein to the arctic climes that Shelley included in her story (it was filmed mainly throughout Scotland).

Netflix has also included new images along with the official trailer.

The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney writes that it’s “One of del Toro’s finest, this is epic-scale storytelling of uncommon beauty, feeling and artistry.” Steve Pond at TheWrap says, “it’s a filmmaker returning to his roots at a time when he has the skills to make those roots grow into something huge and singular. And Slant Magazine’s Marshall Shaffer pinpoints del Toro’s decision to follow the impact of Frankenstein’s mad science on his monster, played by Jacob Elordi, writing, “As the perspective of Frankenstein shifts to that of the creature cast out by its maker, del Toro’s concerns evolve from the cerebral to the emotional.”

Check out the official trailer and images below. Frankenstein will electrify audiences in theaters on October 17, and then stream on Netflix on November 7.