Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has almost 30m views on Netflix, making it one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits of 2025. Until this summer, Netflix’s all-time most viewed list largely comprised a string of instantly forgettable thrillers – The Gray Man, Carry-On, topped by the none-more-starry Red Notice. More recently, however, there’s been a bit ... Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro’s horror gets 29m views in its first week
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has almost 30m views on Netflix, making it one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits of 2025.
Until this summer, Netflix’s all-time most viewed list largely comprised a string of instantly forgettable thrillers – The Gray Man, Carry-On, topped by the none-more-starry Red Notice.
More recently, however, there’s been a bit of a shakeup: animated musical KPop Demon Hunters has been such a phenomenon that it’s comprehensively trounced Red Notice in the views department – it’s now the most-watched film ever on Netflix, with over 325m views to Red Notice’s 231m. That’s a big difference.
It’s possible that Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein might soon sneak its way into the bottom of that top 10. The Mexican director’s gothic horror has notched up over 29m views within the first few days of release (it only started streaming on the 7th November), and it’s been the number one English-language film in 72 countries according to Deadline.
While Frankenstein probably won’t knock KPop off its perch, it may have enough momentum behind it to push it into the top 10 over the next few weeks; its week-one numbers aren’t far off those of Jeremy Saulnier’s taut thriller Rebel Ridge, which was watched about by about 30m people in its first three days. That film eventually got to the 129m views mark. If the momentum behind Frankenstein continues, then it could get the 138m views it needs to sneak into the bottom of the Netflix all-time top 10, currently occupied by the action fantasy, Damsel.
Whatever happens, the response to del Toro’s bloody yet warm-hearted horror will, we hope, convince Netflix to keep giving the filmmaker money to make more movies. And maybe next time, the cinema-averse company will also give a del Toro film a wider run in theatres.
“Seeing people embracing Frankenstein in the way I have for over 50 years now is really meaningful,” del Toro recently told Deadline. “I’ve seen an outpouring of love, with many sharing with me about their repeat viewing, both in the 600 sold out screenings and now globally on Netflix. This is a film I’ve carried with me my entire life, and to see it resonate so deeply with audiences around the world is a really full circle moment.”
Frankenstein is streaming now on Netflix.
