Watch Jacob Elordi Transform Into FRANKENSTEIN’s Monster

Woah! From adorable to undead in 0 to 60. Frankenstein may have thought he was creating something no one had ever seen before, but the good doctor has nothing on the makeup and prosthetic artists who worked on Guillermo del Toro’s new Frankenstein movie. In the Frankenstein transformation video above, we see how incredible and painstaking the process of turning Elordi into the monster really was.

And it’s no surprise. We recently learned that “Elordi’s full body prosthetics used 42 pieces, with 14 pieces on his head and neck.” And Frankenstein used “54 prosthetic silicon pieces” to create the creature in full. Additionally, applying the full-body Frankenstein prosthetics that turned Elordi from man to monster took 10 hours. In total, the movie applied them 50 times! That’s 500 hours in the makeup chair. We don’t see the monster’s full body transformation in the video above, but we can imagine that even the head and neck sections required Elordi to spend a good few hours in the makeup chair. For more on how the monster came to be, make sure to check out the Art and Making of Frankenstein book.

Prosthetic Artist Mike Hill on Creating Frankenstein‘s Monster

Prosthetic artist Mike Hill shares of his vision for Elordi’s Monster in Frankenstein: “What we were trying to do was almost put the inside of a human body up on the outside for all to see. That’s why the veins are shown as clear as they are.”

Additionally, he shares with Elle, “When you saw him, you immediately knew that he was man-made. He’d been tailored, he’d been designed.” And interestingly, as we watch Elordi transform in Frankenstein’s monster in the video, it does almost look like a clothing pattern dances across his skin, tailoring him in precisely the way Hill describes. Literal seams appear in the skin of Elordi’s monster.

But despite this barrage of makeup and prosthetics, Hill stresses, “There’s also a soul in there, and there’s an active performance in there.” And we can certainly see that as we watch Elordi shed his markings of humanity, but he remains unquestionably compelling.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now streaming on Netflix. But, honestly, right now, we can’t tear our eyes from this Frankenstein transformation video and Elordi’s descent into monster.

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