Jacob Elordi’s complete “Frankenstein” monster

Almost a year ago, the Advertising launch until 2024 the hottest horror film, Robert Eggers’ NosferatuHe still played it secretly and refrained from revealing it Bill Skarsgård’s mustachioed count and urged people to flock to theaters to see it for themselves on the big screen. In 2025 the promotion team will be behind it Guillermo del Toro‘S Frankenstein dropped all pretenses and gave potential moviegoers an advance look at Jacob Elordi’s Creature.

In a series of articles on officially Frankenstein X/Twitter account, Fans were greeted with character portraits of the ensemble, all of which tied into Elordi’s Creature. Before today’s post thread, the only shots fans got were Elordi’s enigmatic character stray trailer glimpses (as well as the odd ones Discuss Film contribution of Elordi hugging his dog), obscured by a heavy cloak as he smoldered into the camera, à la Alexandre Cabanel’s “The Fallen Angel”.

As opposed to NosferatuCommenters on the post were more than willing to do so vent their thirst for the 6′ 5″ undead creature.

I’m going to steer away from thinking about people’s dislike of Elordi’s character and turn to more of an artistic appreciation of his extensive makeup job. diversity Reports Frankenstein’s production team used 42 prosthetics to transform the euphoria Actor in Del Toro’s Monster. To be more precise: 14 pieces for the head and neck. The Variety article further detailed that it took eight people ten hours to install Elordi’s full-body prosthetics. In addition, his prostheses had to be fitted 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 receive a character poster treatment on social media ahead of time Frankensteinis the limited theatrical release. He was joined by his castmates Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Mia Goth as Elizabeth Harlander, Christoph Waltz as Heinrich Harlander and Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein.

In io9’s Frankenstein reviewWe praised del Toro’s film, writing, “It really feels like a film he should be making. A filmmaker at the peak of his powers. And he’s given us a film that, despite a few little problems here and there, we’ll probably enjoy from now until eternity.”

Frankenstein is playing in select theaters and plans to expand in the next few weeks. It will premiere on Netflix on November 7th.

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