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Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

It doesn’t take a film critic to see aspects of Mary Shelley’s horror classic Frankenstein bountifully sprinkled throughout Guillermo del Toro’s career—from misunderstood creatures (The Shape of Water), to...

Linda
Nightmare Alley (2021)

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is an undeniably gorgeous film noir, right from the opening scene. We see a man rip up the floorboards in a decrepit remote house,...

Linda
The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Sally Hawkins stars as Elisa, a doe-eyed mute woman who works as an overnight cleaner – alongside co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) – in a research facility in 1962 Baltimore....

Vickie
Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim (2013)

I don’t understand the appeal of watching giant robots smashing things to bits. No, I take that back. I liked The Iron Giant, and Studio Ghibli does fantastic things...

Linda
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known...

Vickie
Hellboy (2004)

Hellboy (2004)

It’s not campy or colorful, but gorgeously dark and gothic and shadowy, like a black-and-white technicolor movie. Ron Perlman, who last donned mucho prosthetic make-up as Vincent in the...

Vickie
The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo) (2001)

The Devil’s Backbone (El espinazo del diablo) (2001)

The setting: a boy’s orphanage out in the middle of freakin’ nowhere at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The building is extremely isolated (of course), and is...

Linda