Oscar Isaac Is Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein In First-Look Photos From Netflix Gothic Horror

It's alive! IT'S ALIIIVEEEE! 17 years after we first reported that Guillermo del Toro was interested in bringing his own take on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's seminal sci-fi novel Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus to our screens, the Mexican auteur's all-star Gothic horror is in the can, on its way, and heading for Netflix this year. And today, following a presentation in which the streamer showed off its massive 2025 movie slate, Netflix gave us a pair of first-look photos from Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. Check out our first glimpse of Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein in GdT's deliciously dark-looking period piece below;

And here's Frankenstein in his steampunk style laboratory, which features a suspiciously large individual who may or may not be Jacob Elordi's Creature;

When del Toro won his Oscar in 2018 for The Shape Of Water, the fabulist filmmaker took the time to personally thank Shelley for the inspiration she has given him throughout his life and career. And, having assembled a cast including such talents as Isaac and Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, and Ralph Ineson to bring his vision to fruition, it seems the notorious GdT is ready to repay that inspiration in a big way. And having made a career from locating the humanity in the outwardly monstrous, and the monstrosity in the outwardly human, weaving achingly beautiful and profoundly haunting cinematic yarns that are as like to make you cry as cower in fear, there's a solid argument to be made that cinema has been crying out for del Toro's Frankenstein just as much as the director himself has. Plus, given the father-son framing of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and, to a lesser extent, Nightmare Alley, this take on Shelley's book is perfectly placed to round out an eye-opening triptych of paternally concerned films; the Daddy Issues Trilogy if you will.

Shot between Scotland and Canada, amid the Gothic architecture of Edinburgh and frosty climes of Toronto, del Toro's Frankenstein — one of two major Frankenstein-related works releasing this year (the other being Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!) — is shaping up to be the project of a lifetime from one of cinema's own great mad scientists. We'll see whether Guillermo del Toro's take on the twisted scientist and his pitiful son inspires love or causes fear when it lands on Netflix in November.