Guillermo del Toro Says Jacob Elordi’s Monster in FRANKENSTEIN Is “Staggeringly Beautiful”

When Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein arrives in theaters and on Netflix later this year, audiences are going to show up for all sorts of reasons. Horror fans will want to see the legendary filmmaker’s spin on Mary Shelley’s classic story.

Del Toro fans will finally get to witness the passion project he’s been dreaming of making his whole career, and plenty of people will be tuning in just to see what Jacob Elordi looks like as the Monster.

The first trailer released kept Elordi’s full transformation under wraps. But, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, del Toro gave fans a vivid description of what to expect. He explained the Monster is “staggeringly beautiful, in an otherworldly way.”

“It looks like a newborn, alabaster creature,” he explained. “The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic.”

Because the Monster is stitched together from multiple corpses, del Toro revealed that its skin is a mix of colors. “The hues are pale but almost translucent. It feels like a newborn soul,” he said.

Interestingly, del Toro doesn’t believe audiences will find the design frightening. According to him, that was never the intention.

“Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, and if he’s been dreaming about this creature for all his life, he’s going to nail it,” del Toro said. What he “didn’t want was the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together].”

It’s a very interesting approach, making the Monster something ethereal instead of grotesque, aligning with both the artistry of Dr. Frankenstein (played by Oscar Isaac) and del Toro’s own signature style.

Unfortunately, we’ll all have to wait to see this “beautiful” creation with our own eyes. Frankenstein opens in theaters October 17 before hitting Netflix on November 7.