An opulent gothic romance in the vein of Jane Eyre or Rebecca rather than a by-the-numbers horror film.
Gothic romance in which a young American woman becomes ensnared by the machinations of a pair of British siblings.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins; Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Burn Gorman, Leslie Hope, Doug Jones, Jonathan Hyde, Bruce Gray, Emily Coutts, Alec Stockwell, Brigitte Robinson, Gillian Ferrier, Tamara Hope)
The film takes standard ingredients of a good horror movie - the sinister setting, the horrible crime, the ghostly presence, the newcomer - and uses a surprisingly gore-free, old-fashioned way of scaring the audience.
Ghosts haunt an isolated
orphanage during the last year of
the Spanish Civil War.
(Country: Mexico / Spain; Year: 2001; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro; Stars: Marisa Paredes, Frederico Luppi, Eduardo Noreiga, Fernando Tielve, Inigo Garces, Irene Visedo.)
Hellboy holds his head high above the mass of superhero characters thanks to a terrific performance by Ron Perlman.
A comic book hero with alien ancestry battles an undead Rasputin for the soul of man.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, based on the comic books by Mike Mignola; Stars: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, Brian Steele)
Cinema is full of monsters, but few in recent memory have been so capable of eliciting our sympathy and understanding.
Hellboy confronts an Elven prince determined to raise an ancient army and destroy the world of men; and has domestic troubles to deal with at the same time.
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola, based upon the Dark Horse comic book by Mike Mignola.; Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander, James Dodd, Seth MacFarlane, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor, John Hurt, Brian Steele, Andrew Hefler, Ivan Kamaras, Mike Kelly, Jeremy Zimmerman, Santiago Segura, Roy Dotrice, Aidan Cook, Jeanne Mockford)
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Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, does not follow Hollywood's traditional approach to nature's abnormalites. Fear is suggested, rather than flung at the screen.
Scientists step in to track a
monster - with a good line in
camouflage - that is picking off
kids for lunch.
(Country: US; Year: 1997; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Matthew Robbins, Guillermo Del Toro; Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin, Alix Koromzay, F. Murray Abraham, James Costa, Javon Barnwell, Norman Reedus)
From its first kindlings it draws breath from your lungs as surely and as steadily as it draws your eyes.
An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who may be even more dangerous than he is.
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2021; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on the book by William Lindsay Gresham; Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn, Mark Povinelli)
Hawkins has waited decades for a role like this, in which she can fully exercise her talents.
A woman who works in a secret government lab discovers a classified experiment.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor; Stars: Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Lauren Lee Smith, Richard Jenkins, David Hewlett, John Kapelos, Nick Searcy, Morgan Kelly, Cyndy Day, Dru Viergever, Madison Ferguson, Amanda Smith)
