{"id":162960,"date":"2025-08-21T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162960\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:06:09","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-explains-why-his-frankensteins-monster-looks-so-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162960\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro Explains Why His Frankenstein’s Monster Looks So Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clearly, we\u2019re all very, very excited about<\/a> Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein, which is coming to theaters on October 17<\/a> before arriving on Netflix on November 7. That\u2019s because it\u2019s del Toro, one of our most beloved filmmakers; his cast is incredible; and there has rarely been a better pairing<\/a> of filmmaker and subject matter. One other thing has us hyped up too, and that\u2019s Frankenstein\u2019s monster<\/a>. Del Toro loves a monster and, in a new interview, he talks about how he approached his monster differently, both visually and in his on-screen creation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since I started drawing the creature in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, I knew I didn\u2019t want symmetric scars and I didn\u2019t want sutures or clamps,\u201d del Toro said to Variety<\/a>. \u201cWhat I thought was very interesting was to make him like a jigsaw puzzle. I wanted him to look beautiful, like a newborn thing, because a lot of times, Frankenstein steps into the frame and he looks like an accident victim. But Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, so the cuts had to make aesthetic sense. I always thought about him as made of alabaster. I never understood something about the other versions: why does Victor use so many pieces from so many bodies? Why doesn\u2019t he just resurrect a guy who had a heart attack? And the answer for me was, what if the bodies come from a battlefield? Then he needs to find a way to bring the corpses together in a harmonious way.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does that all mean? We aren\u2019t quite sure, but it sounds absolutely fascinating. Equally fascinating is del Toro talking about his choice to actually show Dr. Frankenstein make the creature. \u201cAlmost nobody shows the creation of the monster,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody shows thunder, and the monster is already put together. And I thought, if you are following a rock star, you want to shoot the concert. So instead of making it horrible that he is putting all these things together from bodies, I made it into a waltz. I made it into a joyous fun, sort of crazy concert. He\u2019s running around the lab, putting this body together, grabbing this part and placing it together here or there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look, if the image of Oscar Isaac in posh Victorian-era clothes dancing around a lab creating an alabaster monster out of dead bodies doesn\u2019t do it for you, why are you reading this website?<\/p>\n

Frankenstein will have \u201cthe biggest theatrical release that Netflix gives its films,\u201d according to del Toro, starting on October 17. It\u2019ll be in theaters for at least three weeks and, eventually, will even get a physical media release. But, for most people, they\u2019ll see it on Netflix starting November 7. Read more from the filmmaker about his love of the source material, his alternate plans for the movie, and more over at Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clearly, we\u2019re all very, very excited about Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein, which is coming to theaters on October…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,65100,58203,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-162960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-frankenstein","10":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}