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TIFF 2025: The 10 Most-Anticipated Movies, Including Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro's adaptation explores humanity and complex creator-creation dynamics with strong performances, garnering early awards buzz and critical curiosity, premiering Sept 8.
- On Monday, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival for North American audiences, with select theaters opening October 17 and Netflix streaming November 7.
- Del Toro has long treated Frankenstein as a lifelong passion, dedicating over a decade and waiting for the right creative scope to reconstruct the story's world properly.
- The movie's prosthetics and makeup render Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Oscar Isaac starring as Dr. Viktor Frankenstein, in a detailed, transformative design.
- The film is already generating awards buzz, with production craft and Alexandre Desplat's score drawing attention while Netflix positions Frankenstein as a major contender this year amid mixed 81% Rotten Tomatoes and Venice, Telluride reactions.
- Del Toro describes Frankenstein as a fathers-and-sons story probing cycles of abuse, emphasizing that grief, love, rage, and brutality coexist in the same body while expanding Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and enriching Frankenstein’s canon.
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Guillermo del Toro makes Frankenstein his own
Frankenstein is one of those stories that's been retold countless times. And yet, Guillermo del Toro has managed to make a version that not only feels true to Mary Shelley's original, but is also imbued with the trademarks the director is known for. Maybe that shouldn't be too surprising - when presenting the film at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, del Toro explained that he has been thinking about Frankenstein…
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