SOS: Jacob Elordi is missing from Guillermo del Toro’s first Frankenstein trailer

Torontonians are entitled to our obsession with the upcoming Frankenstein movie: the Netflix production was shot here; it was directed by unabashed 416-o-phile Guillermo del Toro; and the monster is played by Hollywood hunk Jacob Elordi, who became the subject of a city-wide crush while he was in production here. (Not to mention a regular at Nutbar on Ossington.)

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Now, finally, the first trailer dropped on Sunday. In it, we get multiple close-ups of Oscar Isaac’s frostbitten beard, that ship that del Toro posted on X and—wait, no, this can’t possibly be right—not a single second of Elordi’s hot monster.

Those of us who clicked on a link expecting to come face to face with six feet and four inches of hot, freaky, possibly green-faced Elordi instead got nothing. (Unless you count those final seconds featuring a completely hooded and shadowed monster. We at the Jacob Elordi Appreciation Society do not.)

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On the one hand, let’s give it to Guillermo. This clip was literally called a teaser, and consider us teased. It’s hard to imagine having a single uninterrupted train of thought between now and whenever the next trailer drops—the one in which our hot-Frankenstein fantasies may finally be realized.

Of course, that’s assuming the monster in question bears at least a passing resemblance to the actor who plays him. Some of us are still recovering from last year’s Nosferatu—the Toronto-shot Dracula retelling earned Oscar noms for its local costume designers, but certified cutie Bill Skarsgård was unrecognizable as the titular vampire.

If del Toro has similar plans, he may want to reconsider. Those monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth are nothing compared to a mob of horny Kissing Booth fans who find out their boy is being covered in prosthetics.