Frankenstein Trailer and Poster Unveiled by Netflix

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer and poster for Guillermo del Toro’s anticipated film, Frankenstein. The movie has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for bloody violence and grisly images.

Frankenstein is set to open in select theaters on Friday, October 17, and will then begin streaming on Netflix on Friday, November 7.

Del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

At the center of the film are Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Inside Llewyn Davis), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn, Priscilla), and Mia Goth (X, Emma).

Joining them are Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (The Witcher, Ahsoka), David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the Harry Potter films), and Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), with Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, Mank) and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained).

The writer-director is fulfilling a lifelong dream: adapting his own version of Mary Shelley’s beloved 1818 Gothic novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley completed the novel at the age of 19, and Del Toro has cited it for years that is an inspiration for his work.

In his 2018 acceptance speech after winning the BAFTA Award for Best Director for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro even made time to thank the British Gothic novelist. “The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family,” he said.

“And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”