Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Synopsis

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

Male Deaths

• David Bradley [Blind Man]
• Adam Brown [Prisoner #1]
• Charles Dance [Baron Leonpold Frankenstein]
• Jacob Elordi [The Creature]
• Oscar Isaac [Victor Frankenstein]
• Felix Kammerer [William Frankenstein]
• Santiago Segura [Prisoner #2]
• Mark Steger [Spinal Corpse]
• Sean Gregory Sullivan [Old Hunter #1]
• Christoph Waltz [Heinrich Harlander]

Female Deaths

• Mia Goth [Claire Frankenstein & Elizabeth Harlander]

Gallery

Unknown Actor

Mia Goth

Charles Dance

Mark Steger

Jacob Elordi

Christoph Waltz

David Bradley

Sean Sullivan

David Bradley

Felix Kammerer

Mia Goth

Jacob Elordi

Oscar Isaac

Trivia

1. The "Frankenstein" tale is one of Guillermo del Toro's favorite stories.
2. Victor Frankenstein's laboratory and Captain Anderson's ship were fully constructed sets. "I want real sets", director Guillermo del Toro explains. "I don't want digital, I don't want AI, I don't want simulation. I want old-fashioned craftsmanship: people painting, building, hammering, plastering."
3. The film is the second time that Oscar Isaac portrays an ambitious mad scientist who played God by creating something dangerous. The first film is Ex Machina (2014).
4. While living with the blind man, the Creation reads "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, husband of "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley.
5. Andrew Garfield was originally cast as the Creature, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. He was replaced by Jacob Elordi in the role. The makeup team spent nine months crafting Garfield's look as the Creature, but had only a few weeks to rework it for Elordi in time for filming.
6. Mia Goth plays the double role of Victor's mother Claire and his love interest Elizabeth Lavenza to create a thematic connection between mother and lover, which director Guillermo del Toro felt was crucial to the story. Goth and del Toro discovered this idea during an early conversation about her experience with new motherhood, and it allowed del Toro to explore the Oedipal themes and Victor's lifelong yearning for his mother through a single actress. Goth also played dual roles, Maxine Minx and Pearl, in the horror film X (2022).
7. Playing Frankenstein's creation was the most demanding role of Jacob Elordi's career. He spent up to ten hours in the makeup chair for extensive makeup application. To make his early call time, he'd sometimes arrive at the makeup trailer at 10 P.M. and stay up all night. Director Guillermo del Toro says he came to believe Elordi was "superhuman". "Never once did he come to me and complain", del Toro marvels. "Never once did he come to me and say, 'I'm tired. I'm hungry. Can I go?' And he put in 20-hour days." Elordi loved the experience. "It's the most I've felt at home, ever, playing a character and shooting a movie", Elordi admits. "It was the most comfortable I've ever been."