Frankenstein (2025)

What earned the score

• Blasphemous Science Corrects God

  Victor Frankenstein views his scientific experiments on reanimating the dead as correcting 'God's mistakes.'

• Victor Mocks Christ's Words

  Victor declares 'It is finished' upon successfully animating the Creature, echoing Jesus Christ's words from the cross.

• Creature Rebels Against God

  The Creature reads the Bible and Paradise Lost, comparing himself to Adam and to Satan while questioning his creation by a God-like Victor.

• Child's Vision Undermines Faith

  As a child, Victor prays to a wooden angel but dreams of a 'dark angel' inspiring him to unlock the secrets of life through science, portraying divine figures as sources of forbidden knowledge opposed to traditional faith.

• Feminist Elizabeth Gains Agency

  The narrative reimagines Elizabeth with greater agency, including compassionate interactions with the Creature and a charged connection that explores sympathy over traditional romance, framed with feminist undertones.

Details

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Starring

Oscar IsaacJacob ElordiChristoph WaltzMia GothFelix Kammerer

Director

Guillermo del Toro

Writer

Mary ShelleyGuillermo del Toro

Genre

DramaHorrorFantasy

Release Date

Oct 17, 2025

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Brief male buttocks during a bathing scene. Lengthy full frontal & back female nudity in a transparent dress for a photoshoot.

• Violence Severe

  Shootings, bones breaking, limbs being broken.

  Gunshot wounds are shown in graphic detail.

  A wolf attacks someone and their tendons and muscles are seen.

  The creature fight the wolves, they are killed in a graphic way by the creature.

  Most of the violence appears in the second half.

  When violence occurs in this film it is bloody, brutal and very graphic.

  Animals are seen with exposed organs and animal attack scenes are viciously graphic with chunks of skin exposed and bloody impact details.

  You watch as victor saws and cuts pieces of humans apart and puts them back together. There is a lot of violence and gore.

• Profanity Mild

  Few uses of hell and d**n.

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol and tobacco use.

  One man tells another man that they should grout for cigars and alcohol. Though this is never seen, it is talked about.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  The experimentation with animals and humans could be upsetting to sensitive younger viewers.

  A man shockingly falls to his death. This will be surprising to most viewers and it shows the impact involving the splattering of the brain and aftermath.

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