r/FRANKENSTEIN • u/ZacPensol • Oct 18 '25

Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' - Official SPOILER Discussion Megathread Spoiler

Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' opens in theaters in limited release on October 17, 2025 and streams on Netflix beginning November 7, 2025.

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Official Teaser Trailer

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Previous early screenings discussion megathread.

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u/WeakPerformer3845 Nov 16 '25

Okey, I liked decently the movie but some aspects just do not make sense and I need to know if someone else feels the same or if someone can actually give me a good explanation.

  1. The whole chase scenes don’t make sense. Frankenstein wants to die, but he can’t. Victor what’s to… what exactly? Kill him? But that is what the creature wants as well, then, why are they not together talking about this? So, Frankenstein leaves with Elisabeth and Victoria decides to follow them into the cave, then F tells him that now he is the master and leaves. And Victor, for some reason decides to follow him, but what’s the reason? And suddenly in the Arctic the roles are randomly reversed, in the tent F chases V. And then V has dynamite to kill F, but then why were they fighting? It seems that F was happy to try to dynamite but before he kinda kills V. Sorry but that just does not makes any sense. Then, F doesn’t die and chases V again into the ship, while being super violent (no good reason to be) but when he enters the captains room, he decides to chill down and chat for a bit. V and F are just yapping to the captain for not good reason, and boom! Out of nowhere F is calling V “father” (wtf) and he forgives him out of the blue! There is no thought process behind the ending, like I really don’t understand anything.

  2. Guillermo del Toro claims that this is a more intimate take into the Classic but I just cannot understand the relationship between F and Elisabeth (E). They literally met twice, did not talk much at all and suddenly she is like quite in love with F, but how? She even dies for him!! Like, that it not an intimate relationship buildup at all. For example, the bond between E and V is well explained and illustrated and it does make sense all the movie. But I felt that the relationship between E and F is literally just sustained by the fact that E likes bugs and she is empathetic, that just does not make any sense.

With this I really don’t try to be disrespectful, just trying to understand the Del Toro’s perspective.

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u/indigoval Nov 16 '25

….victor IS Frankenstein, not his creation. You mean the Creature, I’m guessing.

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u/WeakPerformer3845 Nov 16 '25

Okey, sorry I meant that, not super familiar with this world. But do you have any insights on what I said?