Jacob Elordi’s Frankenstein Monster Fully Revealed in Striking New Poster

Netflix just gave us a fresh look at Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, and Jacob Elordi's Creature is not your standard flat-top, green-face situation. This new poster lands right before the trailer and quietly drops a bunch of key info: dates, cast, and a better sense of del Toro's very specific vision.

The poster: icy, stitched, and not shy about the scars

Elordi's Creature shows up in a fur-lined coat, skin pale and cut to pieces, with stitching you can actually trace. Earlier teases had him bundled in furs in a snowy setting; the poster goes closer, revealing an exposed hand and a face that looks like it was assembled from multiple faces with layers of muscle underneath. There's a red eye peeking out from under his hair. It is a deliberate break from the traditional look most people picture for Frankenstein's creation.

Del Toro's design playbook (aka the inside baseball)

Del Toro has said he's been sketching this character since the late '70s and early '80s, and he is very particular about what the Creature should not be. In August, he told Variety:

"Ever since I started drawing the creature in the late '70s and early '80s, I knew I didn't want symmetric scars and I didn't want sutures or clamps... I wanted him to look beautiful, like a newborn thing."

He also framed Victor Frankenstein as both scientist and artist, which tracks with the design choices. One vivid (and very del Toro) touch: he has floated the idea that the monster's parts might come off a battlefield, which influenced how the corpses are joined. That explains why the Creature looks more like a jigsaw you can't unsee than a clean lab experiment gone wrong.

Trailer timing and release plan

Netflix posted a teaser on September 30 with the caption 'Frankenstein trailer tomorrow.' The full trailer arrives October 2. The movie itself is set for a limited theatrical run starting October 17, then hits Netflix on November 7.

What the story is this time

It's Mary Shelley at the core, but filtered through del Toro. Victor Frankenstein is still the brilliant, egotistical mind who builds a being he can't control, and the creation ends up destroying both of them. The 'Victor as artist' angle should give this version a different texture than the usual tortured-scientist read.

• Trailer: October 2 (confirmed by Netflix on its official account)
• In theaters: October 17 (select cities)
• Streaming: November 7 on Netflix
• Main cast: Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Jacob Elordi
• Also in the ensemble: Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance

Bottom line: the Creature looks unsettling in a very intentional, very del Toro way, and the rollout suggests Netflix is treating this like a prestige horror event. Trailer tomorrow should seal the deal on just how far this reimagining goes.