Throughout the promotion for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Netflix has kept Jacob Elordi’s appearance as the Creature a mystery.
The clearest look we’ve had yet is one promotional still, which shows the Creature standing in snowy darkness, wrapped almost completely in furs. Only the top half of his face is visible, revealing deathly pale skin crisscrossed by scars.
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Now, though, Netflix has granted eager Frankenstein fans with a new Creature character poster for the film, giving us our best look yet at what to expect from del Toro’s take on Frankenstein’s monster.
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The poster shows the Creature’s full face, which actually appears to be multiple faces sewn together. Adding to the medical gore of the Creature’s look is his hand, which is mostly skinless, leaving his bones and muscles exposed. You can also catch a red eye peeking out from between strands of the Creature’s long hair. The hair calls to mind not a monster, but a gothic, romantic hero, one you’d expect to find striding across the windswept moors. (Or maybe I’m just thinking of Elordi’s role in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation.)
If that poster wasn’t enough to get you excited about Frankenstein, look no further than the positive critical response out of the film’s world premiere at 2025’s Venice International Film Festival, and its subsequent showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. Mashable’s Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko called Frankenstein “a masterpiece” in her review.
Puchko also highlighted Elordi’s performance, writing, “He wears a full body of prosthetic scars and putridly pale skin, but he suffuses every movement, every glance with purpose and emotion. Escaping his well-recognized handsomeness and the expectations that come with being a dashing leading man, Elordi is del Toro’s perfect monster, wretched and wondrous.”
Frankenstein opens in select theaters Oct. 17 and hits Netflix Nov. 7.
