Frankenstein: Book vs. Movie
Guillermo del Toro's 2025 film Frankenstein adapts Mary Shelley's book. Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi the creature, whose accounts of their shared history reveal a struggle over responsibility and rejection.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Mary Shelley
- Year
- 1818
- Pages
- 144Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 35 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Paul Michael
Victor Frankenstein discovers how to create life, then recoils from the being his work produces and abandons it. Left to learn language and human customs alone, the creature longs for companionship but meets fear wherever it goes. Creator and creation give competing accounts of their suffering as rejection turns into a demand that Victor take responsibility for what he has made.
- Director
- Guillermo del Toro
- Writer
- Guillermo del Toro
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 2 hr 29 min
- Network
- Netflix
- Cast
- Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
- Genre
- Adventure, Drama, Gothic, horror, Romance, science fiction
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
An Arctic expedition takes aboard an injured Victor Frankenstein, pursued across the ice by a being he claims to have created. Victor recounts the ambition, family wounds and wealthy patronage that allow him to attempt the manufacture of life. When the creature offers its own account, their conflict becomes a struggle over abandonment, responsibility and the need for affection.
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