“If you will not allow me love, then I will indulge rage,” says the monster in the first full trailer for Guillermo del Toro ‘s Frankenstein .

The line is full of in intelligence and pathos, and indicates a very different cinematic take from James Whale’s 1931 classic Frankenstein , starring Boris Karloff. In fact, del Toro’s film looks to hew much more closely to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel of the same name.

To wit, while the film’s teaser trailer told the story from Victor Frankenstein’s point of view, this first full trailer is set to voiceover from the monster (Jacob Elordi) himself. He is no longer the grunting brute of Whale’s film, but a literate, deepy-feeling human composite who is struggling to come to grips with his creator ( Oscar Isaac ).

We see scenes of his gene

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