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“Some of what I will tell you is fact,” Oscar Isaac intones in the opening moments of the new teaser trailer for Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Frankenstein adaptation, which premiered on May 31 at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event.

“Some is not. But it is all true.” The truth of this particular tale is in the eye of the beholder — whether that’s the eye of Victor Frankenstein (Isaac), or the misbegotten creature (Jacob Elordi) he’s created. You can see the full teaser above.

Del Toro has been dreaming of Mary Shelley’s classic monster since childhood, but it took him decades to finally adapt the novel in earnest. In the interim, the iconography of the beloved tale seeped into the rest of del Toro’s filmography — think of the lightning-infused birth of Pinocchio in his 2022 Oscar winner Pinocchio, or the wounded humanity of Ron Perlman’s monstrous “Hellboy.”

Now, that continuum of influence has been reversed. Fans of del Toro’s work will note plenty of familiar imagery in the new teaser, from Isaac’s Victor standing on a decaying staircase holding a candelabra (see: “Crimson Peak“) to a blood-red angelic figure surrounded in flames (see: “the Angel of Death in Hellboy II: The Golden Army“, the blue Wood Sprite and the sphinxlike “Death in Pinocchio“, and even the Faun in “Pan’s Labyrinth“). The teaser promises Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, filtered through the lens of Guillermo del Toro on the grandest canvas imaginable. We can’t wait to see what new angles the celebrated filmmaker discovers.

“Frankenstein” arrives on Netflix in November. You can read more about the film right here.