Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein has achieved another prestigious milestone, with the Oscar-nominated monster movie officially added to the Criterion Collection.
Per Variety, who revealed the news exclusively earlier today, Netflix's other huge hitter of 2025, Kpop Demon Hunters, will also be joining the iconic library of classic and contemporary films.
Following a limited theatrical release, Netflix unleashed Frankenstein, which stars Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Christoph Waltz alongside scream queen Mia Goth, in November of last year. Del Toro's cinematic reading of Mary Shelley's seminal science-fiction novel topped the Netflix chart with over 60 million views in 10 days, with critics and audiences alike aligned on an excellent reception, and Fango's own Michael Gingold praising the film's “impeccable craft”.
With Frankenstein joining the Criterion Collection, that bodes very well for the quality of the physical media release that del Toro has already confirmed will include deleted scenes which show Goth's Elizabeth Harlander in the convent where she lives before marrying into the Frankenstein family, and presumably much, much more. A Criterion release will almost certainly take us behind the scenes of the practical effects and monster making that went into crafting Frankenstein, too.
Frankenstein will be far from del Toro's first movie to achieve Criterion status – a majority of the horror maestro's past works including Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, Pinocchio, Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water and, most recently, Nightmare Alley are all proudly part of the selection.
Look out for more on Frankenstein‘s Criterion Collection release as we get it, and for more, here's all the other monster movies we're excited for still to come in 2026.
