Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi & More — Venice

It’s alive! Guillermo Del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s classic had its premiere Saturday at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

The writer and director of Netflix’s Frankenstein walked the red carpet at the Lido with the film’s stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and more, where the film is in the main competition ahead of its Oct. 17 release in select theaters and Nov. 7 arrival on Netflix.

Starring Isaac as the titular brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor, Frankenstein sees the doctor bring a creature (Elordi) to life with a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to both of their undoings.

Del Toro previously said at a press conference for the film, “It was a religion for me. Since I was a kid — I was raised very Catholic — I never quite understood the saints. And then when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood what a saint or a messiah looked like. So I’ve been following the creature since I was a kid, and I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world.”

Also in attendance from the movie were Christoph Waltz (who plays Henrich Harlander), Felix Kammerer (William Frankenstein) and composer Alexandre Desplat.

The red carpet also featured appearances from Leslie Bibb, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kaitlyn Dever, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Paris Jackson, Jesse Williams, Gemma Chan, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Molly Gordon, Sofia Carson, Nathalie Emmanuel and more.