With Jacob Elordi as the Creature, del Toro finally brings his most personal film to life.
Del Toro first met the Creature as a child—and didn’t see horror, but heartbreak.
This film is the story he’s waited his whole life to tell.
Forget Boris Karloff. Elordi’s porcelain-faced monster is sad, curious, and vengeful.
Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein like a mad scientist meets 1960s frontman.
Universal monsters, Hammer Horror, and Gothic art into something dazzling and devastating.
The film explores what it really means to create life—and abandon it.
Icy landscapes, sarcophagi with exposed faces, and gowns like haunted veils.
He’s not just a monster. He’s a child denied affection. “Why did you create me just to hate me?” he asks
Elordi uses silence, growls, and posture to show deep emotional trauma.
Lightning, lab tables, pitchfork mobs… but with existential dread, poetic monologues, and unexpected tenderness.