With August coming to a close, we are now well past the midpoint of 2025, but there remain two big seasons ahead for Hollywood: spooky season and award season. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is a film that is widely expected to have its feet in both worlds, and it has thusly inspired a great deal of anticipation from cinephiles. Audiences still have a little while to wait before it will be widely released, with Netflix planning on launching the feature in theaters in mid-October, but early buzz is now online thanks to the upcoming horror movie's premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Adapting Mary Shelley's iconic novel has long been a dream and a passion for Guillermo del Toro, and his cinematic vision is a faithful take on the source material that puts a spotlight on the incredible complexity of the being known in pop culture as The Monster or The Creature. One of the most effusive early reactions to Frankenstein comes from critic David Rooney, who writes for The Hollywood Reporter that the genre film is a blend of "tragedy, romance and a philosophical reflection on what it means to be human" that is "breathtaking" at times to look at. He says of the new Netflix film,
