Guillermo del Toro doesn’t just craft creatures willy nilly–he pours his heart and soul into his monsters. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has spent more than 30 years chasing his vision for Frankenstein (a 2025 movie schedule release) and if his recent comments are anything to go by, he isn’t stitching a nightmare so much as shaping a poem. He says Jacob Elordi’s take on the Creature in the upcoming Netflix release is “staggeringly beautiful,” a choice that flips the usual script on what to expect with new horror movies and hints at a gothic tragedy built on empathy, not revulsion.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly ahead of the upcoming book-to-screen adaptation of Mary Shelly’s classic, Toronto premiere, the Pan's Labyrinth filmmaker laid out a design philosophy that reframes the myth. He didn’t want an “accident victim” patched together by Victor Frankenstein (played by Oscar Isaac); he wanted a vision made with intention, elegance, and care. As del Toro puts it:
