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Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, FRANKENSTEIN is on Netflix this November. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. Oscar-winning director Guillermo 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

 

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3 hours ago, veritas aequitas said:

Alamo needs to show this. Just doesn't seem justified on Netflix

Yep, that’s what everybody is saying.  Won’t be surprised if they release it in theaters with the buzz it’s getting.

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1 hour ago, Hawndoh said:

Wonder why November and not in time for Halloween?

There's been people saying it was appropriate to release it in November, and I'm not sure why.

edit: figured it out:

"It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ...

 

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22 minutes ago, veritas aequitas said:

This one actually looks like the book

He’s complained in the past that nobody has done the original book justice, and given his body of work, he’s the person to do it.  The cast is great as well.

I hope the buzz builds enough that it ends up in theaters.

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1 hour ago, veritas aequitas said:

This one actually looks like the book

Rectangular and full of pages?

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1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

Dang I just cancelled Netflix too, this is the ONE thing I would want to watch on that platform.

It’s in theaters, but that’s much more expensive than a month of Netflix. 

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On 6/1/2025 at 4:36 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, FRANKENSTEIN is on Netflix this November. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. Oscar-winning director Guillermo 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

 

CSB I just learned Oscar Isaac went to the same grade school as me.

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On 10/22/2025 at 2:50 PM, gofuckyourself said:

My name ... it's pronounced Frahnkensteen.

This looks awesome.

Bought tickets for Alamo for Saturday.

How was it?

Alamo up here in Dallas offered free tickets in return for buying $5 in food/drink credits for testing a new ordering system.  We're going tonight.

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On 11/4/2025 at 10:04 AM, DDD Dad said:

How was it?

Alamo up here in Dallas offered free tickets in return for buying $5 in food/drink credits for testing a new ordering system.  We're going tonight.

And how was it?

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I went today to catch it in theaters before it went to just streaming.  I thought it was fine.  It was a Del Toro movie, so it was visually terrific and the technical aspects were all top notch.  I just found it kind of uninteresting and Mia Goth was miscast.  I read a review afterwards that called it "inert", which seems like a good word for it.

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1 hour ago, Stringer said:

I went today to catch it in theaters before it went to just streaming.  I thought it was fine.  It was a Del Toro movie, so it was visually terrific and the technical aspects were all top notch.  I just found it kind of uninteresting and Mia Goth was miscast.  I read a review afterwards that called it "inert", which seems like a good word for it.

Similar take.  I didn't quite understand how they ended up at the North Pole (is that from the book?) but it was still worth the watch.  I would recommend you watch it in the theater, or at least on a very big screen if you're going to watch it on Netflix after tonight.

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Without spoiling anything in the first post, it is visually amazing and a very good movie.  But it does deviate from the novel in some significant ways.

I enjoyed it and expect to enjoy it more on a second viewing when I'm not caught off-guard by the changes.

Definitely recommend it.

 

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On 11/6/2025 at 5:50 PM, DDD Dad said:

Similar take.  I didn't quite understand how they ended up at the North Pole (is that from the book?) but it was still worth the watch.  I would recommend you watch it in the theater, or at least on a very big screen if you're going to watch it on Netflix after tonight.

Yes that is a very much part of the book.

I don't know what to think of this movie to be honest. It's half cheese, half interesting. It's like if The Prestige and Twilite had a baby called Twilite Prestige: Dawn of Frankenstein had a film baby.

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26 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Yes that is a very much part of the book.

I don't know what to think of this movie to be honest. It's half cheese, half interesting. It's like if The Prestige and Twilite had a baby called Twilite Prestige: Dawn of Frankenstein had a film baby.

And del Toro clearly loved the source material.

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I loved the book and appreciated the artistic effort Del Toro put into this movie. It was visually stunning, and as a horror junkie, I think I enjoyed it more than most here. What I do agree with others in was Mia Goth being poorly cast in this film. She didn't have the real depth needed to pull it off for my taste. I'm not sure I loved the writing/directing of her part either so perhaps not all on her. It's a critical role and it fell short in my opinion.

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