Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Returning to Theaters for One Week (Including Some 35mm Screenings)

Did you miss the chance to catch Guillermo del Toro’s stunning “Frankenstein” when it was in theaters last October? Netflix has stitched up a solution.

Netflix has announced that the film will return to theaters for a special one-week engagement in North America, starting tomorrow, January 16. The film will be shown in 35mm at the Paris Theater in New York City and the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, and will play in theaters in the U.S., including Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Orlando, and Springfield, VT. 

Additionally, del Toro will appear at the TLC Chinese IMAX for a screening of the film and live Q&A, with more details to come on the exact date and time.  

The film, del Toro’s take on the classic Mary Shelley Gothic tale, stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. The film has been nominated for The Screen Actors Guild 32nd Annual Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA for Cast in a Motion Picture and Jacob Elordi for Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. It’s also been cleaning up on the craft noms and awards, including a number of wins at the CCAs earlier this month.

And people have been watching it! Per Netflix, the film is the #3 most viewed film in the second half of 2025 with over 98M views on the streaming platform. “After the phenomenal numbers we are getting in the streaming release, I’m delighted that audiences will have the chance to see the work of my amazing team in theaters once again,” del Toro said in an official statement. “Thank you to the devoted fans for making the success of ‘Frankenstein’ possible, it means more to me than you would imagine.”

At the 2025 Venice Film Festival, del Toro spoke at the film’s press conference about seeking out big ideas, and how that might work with whatever format a film is shown in. “To me, the battle we are going to find in telling stories is on two fronts. Obviously the size of the screen, but the size of the ideas is very important. The size of the ambition, the size of the artistic hunger that you bring to cinema,” said the Best Director winner. “It’s a matter of, can we reclaim scale, and reclaim scale of ideas? Can we challenge ourselves to that?”

The director also reminded festival press during the conference that there have been instances in the past where even a fully theatrical release of his did not go the way he envisioned. “You never know what’s gonna happen. When we released ‘Nightmare Alley,’ we were released next to ‘Spider-Man [No Way Home]’ and Omicron, the variation of COVID, and we lasted very little, so you never know which format it’s going to be,” said the director.