Jacob Elordi’s Full ‘Frankenstein’ Monster

Almost a year ago today, Promotional leads up For 2024 The most iconic horror movies, Robert Eggers’ NosferatuStill playing close to the chest, refrained from revealing Number of Bill Skarsgård’s moustaches And people urged to throng the theaters to see him on the big screen. In 2025, the promotional team is behind Guillermo del Toroof Frankenstein Dropped all pretense to potential moviegoers looking for Jacob Elordi’s Creature in advance.

In a series of posts official Frankenstein X/Twitter account, In the context of Elordi’s Creature, fans were met with a portrayal of the Sangam character. Before today’s post thread, it was the only shot fans got of Elordi’s mysterious character Glimpse of the stray trailer (Also odd Elordi hugs his dog and discusses the film post), obscured by a heavy cloak, as he smoldered at the camera, A la Alexander Cabanelle’s “The Fallen Angel.”

dislike NosferatuCommenters below the post were more than willing Satisfy their thirst 6′ 5″ for undead creatures.

Moving from the train of thought of people feeling bad for Elordi’s character to a more artistic appreciation for her heavy makeup work, diversity Report frankenstein’s production crew used 42 prosthetics to transform Excitement Del Toro plays the monster. More specifically: 14 pieces for his head and neck. The Variety piece detailed that it took eight people 10 hours to apply Elordi’s full-body prosthetics. In addition, his prosthetics needed to be applied 50 times. In layman’s terms, that’s a lot of time spent in a makeup chair.

As mentioned above, Elordi wasn’t the only actor to get the character poster social media treatment FrankensteinIts limited theatrical release. He is joined by castmates Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Mia Goth as Elisabeth Harlander, Christoph Waltz as Heinrich Harlander and Felix Kamerer as William Frankenstein.

In of io9 Frankenstein ReviewWe praised Del Toro’s film, writing, “This truly feels like the kind of film he wanted to make. A filmmaker at the height of his powers. And he’s given us a film that, with a few minor issues here and there, we’ll probably enjoy forever.”

Frankenstein Playing in select theaters with plans to expand in the next few weeks It will then premiere on Netflix on November 7.

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