Overview
- The Netflix release, directed by Guillermo del Toro, logged 29.1 million views in its first week and sits atop the platform’s most-watched titles, according to Excélsior and LA NACION.
- Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth headline the adaptation as Victor Frankenstein, the Creature and Elizabeth, respectively.
- Coverage highlights deliberate art-historical echoes, including Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Velázquez’s Las Meninas, the Hamlet–Yorick motif, Vanitas compositions, Caravaggio’s Medusa and The Incredulity of Saint Thomas.
- Analyses describe the film as a moral tragedy that emphasizes the Creature’s fragility and ethical questions over traditional horror.
- Praise for creature design and gothic atmosphere contrasts with critiques of sentimentalism, over-explanation, invented characters such as the mecenas Harlander and structural choices that depart from Shelley’s intimate tone.