Frankenstein [Movie Review]

Frankenstein [Movie Review] | “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” they say — but Guillermo isn’t one to play it safe. 

The real question is, will his daring vision redefine the classic or remind us why some stories are better left untouched?

SYNOPSIS

Frankenstein (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth & Christoph Waltz
• Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Producer: Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale & Scott Stuber
• Production Company: Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7

• Distributed by: Netflix
• Release date: October 17, 2025
• Running time: 150 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 7.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 85%
• Metascore: 78%
• Del Toro insisted on full-scale, handcrafted set for Frankenstein’s lab and Captain Anderson’s ship “No digital, no AI, just real craftsmanship.”  
• To embody the Monster, Jacob Elordi trained in Japanese butoh dance and Mongolian throat singing, mastering the creature’s haunting movements and voice. Enduring ten-hour makeup sessions and 20-hour shoot days without complaint, he impressed del Toro, who called him superhuman. Despite the grueling process, Elordi said, “It’s the most at home I’ve ever felt on a film.”  
• Andrew Garfield was set to play the Monster, but Jacob Elordi replaced him, forcing the team to redo nine months of makeup work in mere weeks.

In 1857, the Royal Danish Navy ship Horisont slices through the Arctic chill, its crew fearless in the face of the North Pole’s unrelenting wilderness. But when the ice closes in, trapping the ship in a frozen grave, fate delivers an unexpected passenger, the half-dead Baron Victor Frankenstein. The crew rescues him, unaware that mercy comes with a curse. Soon, a towering figure emerges from the blizzard, a creature with eyes full of fury, demanding Victor’s surrender.

And so begins Victor’s haunting confession: the tale of a man hunted by his own creation.

Born into privilege but burdened by pain, Victor grew up in the shadow of loss. His mother died giving birth to his brother William who becomes their father’s favourite, while Victor was left to endure both neglect and cruelty. Brilliant yet reckless, Victor’s fascination with conquering death became an obsession that consumed him whole.

Expelled from the Royal College of Surgeons after a failed attempt to reanimate a corpse, he finds an unlikely ally in Henrich Harlander, a ruthless arms dealer who funds his unholy experiments. In Harlander’s decaying tower, Victor dreams of rewriting the laws of life and death. But fate twists cruelly when he discovers that Harlander’s niece, the kind-hearted Elizabeth, is engaged to his brother William.

As storms rage above, Victor completes his work: a being pieced together from the corpses of soldiers and criminals. Lightning strikes, life sparks and the Creature is born. Yet triumph turns to terror. The creation that should have been his legacy becomes his curse. The Creature, both powerful and childlike, is chained in darkness, able only to whisper one word “Victor.”

When Elizabeth shows compassion toward the Creature, treating it as human, envy consumes Victor. Madness follows. In a desperate act to erase his sin, he sets his lab ablaze that gets him losing a leg in the explosion and believing he’s destroyed the monster.

But the Creature lives. Alone in the wilderness, it learns kindness from a blind man, language from love and heartbreak from humanity’s cruelty.

Years later, it returns, seeking not vengeance, but companionship. Victor refuses, and tragedy answers instead. Elizabeth and William die in the chaos.

Now tormented by guilt and driven by obsession, Victor hunts his creation to the ends of the earth, where man and monster face the cold truth that sometimes, the real horror isn’t what we create, but what we become.

What price would you pay to play God and could you survive the creation you unleash?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Wonderful performance by the cast - especially The Creature. 
• I love the overall picture and CGIs - clean and beautiful.
• There are some 18SX and 18SG scenes. 

What I Don't Like:

• None I would say. 

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I don't mind watching it again.

Overall: 4.6/ 5.0

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