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Episode 128 - Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein - A Monster Netflix Success!

November 13, 2025·26 min·1 clip

Victor hunts battlefields and executions for the perfect body parts to construct his monster

Dewey kicks off with the Netflix drop. He notes the film only had a very short cinema run, says he is not even sure it was out in Australia, and mentions he watched it recently with his wife. He likes it a lot. Straight away he frames it as Mary Shelley's classic horror monster story through Guillermo del Toro's lens, which for him makes this feel like a very different kind of Frankenstein movie. The cast is solid. He then clears up the Victor Frankenstein-versus-the-Creature thing, because he knows people mix the names up and wants the distinction made plain. The monster is not plain. His read is that Jacob Elordi's Creature is tall, lean, muscular, and nothing like the usual square-headed, bolt-necked version people expect. The makeup is outrageous. He spends time on the blue and grey skin work, saying the patches and shading look unbelievable and give the Creature a properly unique screen presence. It looks mad. He even compares the vibe to the Engineers from Prometheus, which gives a decent picture of the uncanny look he is talking about. Then Elizabeth turns up. When she and Victor's younger brother Felix come to the castle and Elizabeth stumbles across the Creature in the basement, Dewey says something like a connection forms between them, though he would not call it a love story. It gets tense. He describes her as drawn into the mystery of what this thing is, while the Creature latches onto her and begins with Victor, which sets the whole conflict moving. That is the hook. From there he leans into the idea that the Creature is furious that it does not know what it is, carrying broken bits of memory from the body parts it was made from and turning hard against Victor's betrayal. By the end Dewey is back on the visuals, the story, and the very strong cast, and he closes out calling the film a unique, awesome watch.

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A blunt, excited take on del Toro's Frankenstein, with the visuals doing the heavy lifting.

Dewey treats Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein as a Netflix arrival after a brief cinema run, and the focus stays on what the film does best: scale, monsters, and a strong visual payoff.

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Hear a blunt, enthusiastic take on del Toro's Frankenstein, fresh off its recent Netflix drop.

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