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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein finally has dates, as it is now announced that it opens in select theaters later this year before launching on Netflix for global streaming after a few weeks. The film is set to kick off its festival run at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2025, and brings together a stacked gothic cast led by Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the Creature, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth, with Christoph Waltz, Charles Dance, Ralph Ineson, and others rounding out the ensemble.
Netflix has rolled out new images and posters as part of the announcement, leaning into del Toro’s signature dark, ornate style. As announced, Frankenstein will have its theatrical release on October 17, 2025, and will be available to stream on the platform from November 7, 2025.
The film's synopsis reads,
“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.”
Frankenstein is often considered the world's first science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, who wrote it anonymously before revealing her identity after the novel's second edition. With its historical significance and del Toro's brilliance as a director, the film is highly anticipated among fans of the novel and is one of the most anticipated releases of the year.
More details on Frankenstein
For Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein has been a ghost haunting his career, a story he has sketched and re-sketched in notebooks for nearly twenty years. He once called it a “Miltonian tragedy,” an idea born not from cheap horror, but from empathy for a creature left abandoned, misunderstood, and feared.
Now, at last, his vision steps out of the shadows. Oscar Isaac anchors the film as Victor Frankenstein, with Jacob Elordi taking on the monster, a role reimagined in a rush of sketches and redesigns after Elordi replaced Andrew Garfield just weeks before production. Mia Goth plays Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s fiancée.
The cast is rounded out with Christoph Waltz as Harlander, Victor’s wealthy patron; Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein; Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson; David Bradley as the blind man; and Charles Dance as the severe patriarch Leopold Frankenstein. Ralph Ineson lends his voice to Professor Krempe, and Burn Gorman joins as the faithful Fritz.
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This film has been resurrected more than once. Universal tried to launch it in 2008, with Doug Jones even considered for the creature, but the project lay dormant. Only after the acclaim of Pinocchio did Netflix breathe it back to life in 2023. Production finally began in Toronto in early 2024 and was later moved to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and the gothic halls of Burghley House.
Frankenstein will be in theaters on October 17, 2025.
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