We Finally Know When Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Will Hit Theaters and Netflix

It takes a very special Netflix movie to get a theatrical release before hitting the streamer, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is certainly that. Netflix just announced it’ll release the monster movie in select theaters on October 17 before debuting on the platform November 7.

Now, there’s no word yet on just how “select” the “select theaters” will be. Is it two screens? Is it 2,000? If we look back at Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, another major film to get a similar treatment, we can make an educated guess, though. That film debuted in about 600 theaters across North America. This could be more, it could be less, but either way, that’s still about five times less than a traditional wide release. What that means for you is that the film probably won’t only play in major metropolitan areas, but it probably also won’t be at every theater in the neighborhood. We’d suggest checking your local theaters in the next month or so as we get closer to the date.

To commemorate the news, Netflix also released two teaser posters, one that features Oscar Isaac’s iconic Dr. Frankenstein and the other giving us our best look yet at the menacing form of Frankenstein’s monster, played by Jacob Elordi.

“Only Monsters Play God” is such a good tagline and obviously speaks to the familiar story of the film. It follows “a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.” Mia Goth co-stars as Frankenstein’s soon-to-be sister-in-law, who draws the eye of both him and his monster. Multiple Oscar winner Christoph Waltz plays an arms dealer. Felix Kammerer plays Frankenstein’s brother and Goth’s fiancé, and Christian Convery, best known for his work on Sweet Tooth, is young Frankenstein (no, not that one).

This is a story that del Toro has been dreaming about adapting his entire life, and with each passing day, we get increasingly excited to see just how good this movie can be. Are we talking Best Picture nominee? Now we know we’ll find out very, very soon.

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