Frankenstein (2025) is more than a retelling of Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old nightmare; it is a reboot of a story that has become pertinent for a society obsessed with creation and control. It is not just horror; it is philosophy wrapped in electricity. From TikTok to film clubs in universities, from fashion lines that drew inspiration from the monster’s scars to hashtags like #WeAreFrankenstein, the film spawned a cultural phenomenon that was impossible to ignore.
This is not your gothic, candlelit retelling. Frankenstein (2025) brought the myth into a sleek, data-driven dystopia, where creation no longer necessitated lightning bolts; all that was required were algorithms, ambition, and moral blindness.
A Monster Born from Modern Madness
Frankenstein (2025), the latest work by acclaimed director Alex Garland, depicts Victor Frankenstein as a biotech entrepreneur obsessed with the power to reprogram life, instead of a scientist holed up in a freezing European lab. Cillian Murphy’s portrayal of Victor is hauntingly restrained; he is not just “mad” any longer—he is driven by grief, guilt, and genius.
After a tragic lab explosion that takes the life of his partner, he sets out to create an AI-powered synthetic body that can host human consciousness with the intent to restore his partner to life. His tragic flaw, however, is the belief that love can be coded.
In what critics have heralded as a career-defining role, Jacob Elordi portrays a captivating yet terrifying awesome Creation, a fusion of stunning human memory and unnerving machine precision. When it begins to question its existence, audience members will feel the weight of Shelley’s original question: What if the true monster is the mirror we made of ourselves?
The Cultural Shockwave
From the moment the first trailer was released, Frankenstein (2025) was much more than just a movie, it was a social experiment. The phrase “I made you because I couldn’t live without you” became a meme, often used to depict toxic relationships and the overused AI apps.
In its first week, the film became a worldwide trend. Creators on TikTok made creepy, slow-motion edits to the film’s haunting score. Instagram’s fashion pages introduced the “Neo-Goth” aesthetic, inspired by the creature’s stitched together cybernetic skin. X (Twitter) was filled with memes, stating “Me after one therapy session and a data upload.”
Yet, more serious discussions were also sparked. The film’s core question sparked discussions among ethicists, scientists, and politicians alike: contemplating the recreation of consciousness, do we have a soul still?
Philosophy departments at universities across India and Europe integrated the film into “AI and Identity” discussions. Students drew parallels between the film and the growing anxieties surrounding generative AI, cloning, and deepfakes, interpreting the monster as a metaphor for unregulated technological growth.
Behind the Camera: Building a New Era of Horror
In a mix of digital and analog technique, Alex Garland used real laboratories for AI-enhanced Garland’s Frankenstein (2025). Rather than using CGI, Garland used a 3D biological modeling technique to make the monster’s skin. The result of this process was a skin that was disturbingly real.
Garland referred to the film as “a tragedy disguised as a creation myth.” He wished that the audience sees the suffering of both Victor and the creature. Not as a hero and villain, but as two estranged parts of the same soul.
Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score heightened this emotion and was constructed with distorted heartbeats and electric pulses, and as such, guaranteed every scene its own individual, living rhythm. The sound design in particular became a trending topic; fans described the score as “a heartbeat that won’t stop haunting you.”
The Stars Who Electrified the Screen
Cillian Murphy’s Victor Frankenstein was an emotional masterpiece as he portrayed the character’s obsession in a unique way. This Victor wasn’t shouting into storms; he was whispering into code, begging it to love him back. Murphy, in interviews, described the character as “every genius who forgot why they started.”
Meanwhile, Jacob Elordi transformed the creature into something heartbreakingly human. His every movement was heavy with confusion and reluctant rage, and one powerful scene in particular showcased this. The creature touches a mirror and whispers, “If you built me to remember love, why did you make me hate myself?”—a line that became one of the most quoted dialogues of the year.
Emphasizing the emotional weight of the memories were holograms and fragmented recollections. Anya Taylor-Joy as Elise, Victor’s lost lover, whose memories form the creature’s consciousness, represented the life and memories he wished to embody. This juxtaposition served to emphasize the blurred line between memory and life.
From Fear to Fashion
Once released, Frankenstein (2025) began to influence more than just cinema. Fashion houses launched “resurrection couture,” metallic patchwork creations inspired by the creature’s body. Models strutted down the runway with silver pale eyes and scarred makeup, proclaiming “imperfection as identity.”
Social media trends became inspired as well. Artists showcased their “digital resurrection” projects, AI portraits that combined their past and present selves. The aesthetic of broken beauty became the dominant style of late 2025, repeating the film’s core message: perfection is dead, and the imperfect is divine.
The Politics of Playing God
The film also entered into weighty discussions concerning ethics and technology. During talks surrounding legislation of AI consciousness and laws on genetic modification, governments and think tanks used Frankenstein (2025) as a focal point.
A highlight clip of the speaker in a global ethics summit went viral due to the provocative statement:
“We’ve become the modern Frankenstein—not because we build monsters, but because we refuse to admit we already are them.”
There was interfaith discussion around flagging hubris, as recognition of the film, with some citing an attack on religion. But most, if not all, agreed that it reignited a discussion most of humanity had been ducking indefinitely: When does creation stop and corruption begin?
Behind the Madness: On-Set Stories.
As Garland and the rest of the crew designed the self-psychological exploration the cast was to engage in, they were to write from the character’s point of view in a diary and then engage with AI chatbots to sense the ‘fringes of artificial empathizing.’
Jacob Elordi was said to keep silence on set for hours and, in imitation ‘to live within the confusion of the creature.’ AI was then used to script some of the most haunting dialogues of the film, with an actual language model, to achieve an eerie detachment in some moments.
The Monster That Became Us
At the conclusion of Frankenstein (2025), it is difficult not to recognize our likeness in both the monster and its maker. The last moments of the drama, in which Victor is confronted by his creature and their environment fades to static, felt like a prophecy: the creature needs no more lightning and no more graveyards; all it needs is a broken heart and Wi-Fi.
The audience is offered an insight: Shelley’s warning has evolved. The new monster is no longer a patchwork stitched together from the remains of the dead; it is woven from code, memory, and the ego of a human.
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