Poster for Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN Reveals Jacob Elordi's Monster; New Trailer Drops Tomorrow
A new poster for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has been released, giving us the clearest look yet at Jacob Elordi’s monstrous transformation. It was also announced that a new trailer will be released tomorrow.
In the image, Elordi’s creature stands tall with long, greasy hair and a thick fur coat. The real nightmare is in the details though.
His face appears stitched together from mismatched pieces of rotting flesh, and his exposed hand is stripped of skin entirely, leaving raw tendons on display. It’s grotesque, unsettling, and exactly the kind of bold reimagining you’d expect from Del Toro.
Instead of the classic bolts-in-the-neck version we’ve seen countless times, this creature feels unnervingly real and a little disturbing.
The director previously 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.”
According to del Toro, the monster design isn’t meant to be frieghtening, he said: “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.”
What he “didn’t want was the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together].” But, that’s kinda what we are seeing in the image.
The story follows Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorious, a scientist determined to track down Frankenstein’s Monster, believed to have perished in a fire 40 years earlier. His mission is to continue the forbidden work of Oscar Isaac’s Dr. Victor Frankenstein, pushing the boundaries of life, death, and creation itself.
The cast also includes Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Christian Convery, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, and Ralph Ineson.
The movie is set to be released in theaters on October 17 before hitting Netflix on November 7.
