Jacob Elordi is Frankenstein’s monster. But not as you know it

This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises once more, summoned this time by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro.

But green-skinned, bolt-necked and flat-skulled he is not. In fact, the monster — who first entered the cultural conversation over 200 years ago thanks to Mary Shelley’s gothic science-fiction novel — has undergone something of a facelift. Played by Hollywood heartthrob Jacob Elordi, the creature (who in Shelley’s writing was abandoned by humanity for its immense and unbearable “physical deformity”) appears on-screen with sculpted cheekbones and pouty lips. Even with his suture-less scars, he is kind of hot.

His skin is ivory white, inspired by the alabaster statues carved by Old Masters, with joining wounds that mimic flattering contour-lines. Elordi’s big brown puppy-dog