Tagged: Guillermo del Toro

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2010s / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Shape of Water (2017)

Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim) returns to his favorite playground once again, that realm where fantasy and reality co-exist, ever so tenuously.  Though worlds apart in terms of its story, The Shape of Water may...

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2010s / Horror / Mystery

Crimson Peak (2015)

Starting off in Buffalo, NY, at the turn of the 20th century, Mia Wasikowska (Madame Bovary, The Double) stars as an aspiring writer named Edith Cushing (nod to Hammer Horror thespian Peter Cushing, no doubt)...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction

Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...

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2000s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

With Hellboy II: The Golden Army, writer-director Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Mimic) continues his tradition of making visually magnificent spectacles that succeed not just through gorgeous eye candy, but by giving his characters the room to...

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2000s / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / War

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Set in rural northern Spain in 1944, following their Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth tells the tale of Ofelia (Baquero, Romasanta), a young girl who travels to a military camp with her pregnant mother (Gil, Belle Epoque) in order for...

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2000s / Action / Horror / Superhero

Hellboy (2004)

Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” was a favorite comic of mine for a short while, back when it first appeared in Dark Horse comics in the pages of John Byrne’s “Next Men”, back in the early...

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2000s / Drama / Horror

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Slowly but surely, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has been crafting a nice little career for himself as a director of atmospheric horror, and El Espinazo del Diablo (or The Devil’s Backbone, as it’s known in the English-language...

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2000s / Action / Horror

Blade II (2002)

Although I am a fan of comic books, and enjoy Wesley Snipes’ work even when he is playing an expressionless monosyllabic badass, I was disappointed in the first film in what is now a...

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2000s / Comedy / Thriller

Snatch (2000)

“Mr. Madonna”, Guy Ritchie, follows up his splash debut to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with another wryly comic (and violent) crime piece with Snatch.  Like the previous film, it features a cast of almost two...