Frankenstein

"Only monsters play God."

2025 2h 30m EN

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7.6

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85%

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7.4

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★7.6TMDB · 3,917🍅85%Rotten Tomatoes●78Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 308,622

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Synopsis

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Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

“Only monsters play God.”

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Cast

Oscar Isaac
Victor Frankenstein
Jacob Elordi
The Creature
Christoph Waltz
Harlander
Mia Goth
Elizabeth / Claire Frankenstein
Felix Kammerer
William Frankenstein
Charles Dance
Leopold Frankenstein
David Bradley
Blind Man
Lars Mikkelsen
Captain Anderson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: Michael Derrah, Guillermo del Toro
Languages: Danish, English, French
Countries: United States of America, Canada

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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3 / 8

MONEY

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Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Released last year.

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5 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Danish, English, French.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Canada.

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CAST

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270+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Dan Laustsen. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Guillermo del Toro directs. Dan Laustsen behind the camera. Alexandre Desplat scores. Evan Schiff cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America, Canada. Dialogue in Danish, English, French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.
3Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
4Released last year.
5Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Danish, English, French.
6International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Canada.
7270+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
8Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Dan Laustsen. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
9Original score by Alexandre Desplat. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
10Editor Evan Schiff shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
11Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi and Christoph Waltz carry the top of the cast.
12Marketing tagline: "Only monsters play God.".
13IMDB entry: tt1312221 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
14Classified under 17 themes, including "monster", "based on novel or book", "supernatural", "halloween".
15Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Dan Laustsen
Original score: Alexandre Desplat
Editing: Evan Schiff
Production design: Tamara Deverell
Costume design: Kate Hawley
Makeup / hair: Cliona Furey
VFX supervisor: Dennis Berardi
Sound: Christian T. Cooke
Stunt coordinator: Eli Zagoudakis
Runtime: 150 min · 2h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $120,000,000
Box office: $480,678
Return: 0% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Frankenstein (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 308,622 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

Won 3 Oscars. 89 wins & 260 nominations total

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Manuel São Bento2025-10-13
★ 8/10
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ fandomwire.com/frankenstein-review/ "Frankenstein is a powerful, visceral film that solidifies Guillermo del Toro as a master of atmosphere and emotion. Thanks to Jacob Elordi's transcendent performance as The Creature and exceptional multi-departmental work, the movie takes the legendary tale and transforms it into a deep, complex meditation on human fallibility and the terror of rejection. It's a visual and thematic experience that demands patience and personal, intellectual, and emotional investment. Shockingly violent, it's undeniably one of the most important stories of the year. The combination of geniuses in front of and behind the camera results in a feature that confronts us with an undeniable truth: the tale of Frankenstein isn't about creating a monster; it's about the eternal and necessary challenge of recognizing our own humanity in those we reject." Rating: A-
CinemaSerf2025-11-07
★ 7/10
This has got be Oscar Isaac at his best yet, depicting the obsessive scientist hell-bent on proving that he could use science to defeat death itself. He is the son of an acclaimed but rather brutal physician (Charles Dance) and is galvanised further to his chosen path by the sudden death of his mother. His theories disgust civilised society but the wealthy “Harlander” (Christophe Waltz) agrees to fund his experiments to what he hopes will be their logical conclusion. Now secreted away in his remote castle, and quite literally cannibalising spare parts from graveyards and mortuaries alike, he awaits that lightning storm that could just bring Jacob Elordi to life. The problem for the Baron is that he is disappointed with his creation and has no concept that it looks to him very much as a father. Imprisoned in the basement, the “monster” is befriended by “Elizabeth” (Mia Goth) who sympathises with it’s ghastly predicament - but before she can help a great conflagration sets in train a cat and mouse struggle between created and creator that takes them to the depths of the frozen wastes where an exploration ship is trapped in thick pack ice - where our story both starts and concludes. Isaac really does own his megalomaniac obsessive role here and the whole creative effort put into the production design turns this from simple science fiction into a multi-textured love story with it’s fair share of moral dilemmas, hate and loathing too. Elordi? Well he does bring back memories of Christopher Lee in this role, only here is is also rewarded with an extra degree of articulation and towards the end, more of a conscience and even an amount of personality - and he manages to portray his character’s frustrated and confused conflict well, if fairly sparingly. Whilst there are common points of reference with earlier iterations of this story, this enlivens it in a far more characterful and in many ways more justifiable way, and I thought it flew by. Big screen if you can, though Netflix does seem to have limited it’s cinema release quite a bit, because it might lose much of it’s stylish and gothic menace as well as it’s emotionally-charged nuance on a small screen.
Chandler Danier2025-11-08
★ 6/10
I walked in at 44 minutes. The last hour and 45 has less whinging in accents. Bad Lighthouse. Swearengen in Wick 4. I went to a restaurant and they were playing this as though it was a serious movie. One could not pass through the projector beam. I could see my hair in the letterbox. I'm glad I didn't see this all in the theatre. I watched the beginning later to see what I missed and I was not pleased. Mia Goth touching his wound. Nice. Hoped for more from that treasure trove. Forest Spirit learns to read. Nice. Victor tries too hard in character and on screen. Fr-long-bullshit-stein.