Netflix has finally announced the release plan for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and the good news is that the film will be coming to the big screen in addition to streaming on Netflix. The bad news? Well, it looks like the theatrical release will be quite limited.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein first comes to select theaters October 17, the streamer has announced this morning, with the Netflix premiere to follow on November 7, 2025.

No word yet on how many theaters GDT’s Frankenstein will be released in. Stay tuned.

“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience at Netflix’s recent Tudum event.

“There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again,” del Toro continued. “I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for over 25 years It has grown so close to me that now it’s biography.”

The film follows brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor Frankenstein, who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Oscar Isaac (Dune) stars in Del Toro’s movie as mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) as Frankenstein’s monster, Mia Goth (MaXXXine) as Elizabeth Lavenza, and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Dr. Pretorius.

Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (“Ahsoka”), David Bradley (Harry Potter), Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) round out the cast.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein is rated “R” for “bloody violence and grisly images.”