Frankenstein

Thirteen minutes of clapping, and both leads cried

Venice gave Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein a 13-minute standing ovation on August 30, 2025. Oscar Isaac, playing Victor, and Jacob Elordi, playing the Creature, were in tears. Isaac kissed Elordi on the cheek while the applause kept going. Del Toro has chased Mary Shelley's novel since childhood. Universal once parked the project beside a Dark Universe plan and had Doug Jones in makeup tests. latestnetflix.com's read is that Netflix revived it after Pinocchio won the animated Oscar.Limited U.S. Theaters opened October 17. The stream date was November 7. Variety put the budget at $120 million.,,

This is the 2025 movie on TMDB 1062722. It is not James Whale's 1931 film, and it is not Kenneth Branagh's 1994 version. Del Toro kept saying that out loud because the internet still mixes them up.

Nine weeks to rebuild a monster

Andrew Garfield had the Creature. The 2023 strikes wrecked his calendar. He dropped out weeks before cameras. Makeup artist Mike Hill had spent nine months on Garfield's look. Del Toro told Vanity Fair they recast with nine weeks left. "You can't be under more pressure than that," he said. He also called Elordi "the most perfect actor for the creature." Elordi told Screen Daily the part was "more me than me." Del Toro's line for the panic was that anything that goes wrong is the movie trying to right itself. Garfield later told Deadline he was disappointed, then added, "I'm very, very glad that it was him doing it." A hair stylist from Priscilla had pointed del Toro at Elordi. Elordi had already joked on that set about landing Frankenstein.,,

Hill had to refit prosthetics for a 6 foot 5 actor. BBC Culture's Nicholas Barber hated the result and compared a handsome Creature to "a vegetarian Dracula." Del Toro told Screen Daily he did not want "any Boris." Mia Goth plays both Victor's mother and Elizabeth. Charles Dance is the brutal father. Christoph Waltz is the dying arms dealer who wants his brain put in the body. Production designer Tamara Deverell built 119 sets across 100 shooting days in Toronto, with extra work in Edinburgh and Lincolnshire. Alexandre Desplat wrote a lyrical score on purpose, not a horror sting.,,

The film took nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and supporting actor for Elordi, and won costume, makeup, and production design. Del Toro told The Independent that large portions were "autobiographical for me." Criterion later announced a 158-minute Reborn Cut beside the theatrical version. A $120 million Netflix gothic that spent two decades as a dream project, lost its Netflix-era Creature to a strike, and still showed up in Venice with both leads crying. That is the column.,,