Tag Archives: Guillermo del Toro

As its title implies, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is an enigmatic film. It’s not a horror movie, though it has elements of the horrific. There are scenes of intense drama, but there are also bits that are ...

Now finished with their fifth year of eclectic, cultured, smart, and truly eye-opening film programming, the Ithaca Fantastik offered fans, critics, filmmakers and industry insiders something truly special. Taking place during the second week of November, this film festival in the ...

Over the past couple of decades, Spain’s film industry has churned out a number of high-profile horror films and chilling psycho-thrillers. Think Alejandro Amenábar’s Los otros/The Others (2001) starring Nicole Kidman, Guillermo del Toro’s twisted fairy-tale, El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and, of course, El orfanato/The ...

Writer Nancy Holder had a daunting task: translating Guillermo del Toro’s highly visual film of Crimson Peak into a novel. Holder’s novelization is intended as a tie-in to the movie; a companion to it. The book succeeds in that regard, ...

Originally known for his role as Duncan on the animated faux-reality series Total Drama Island, Canadian actor Drew Nelson is about to find a whole different kind of audience in FX’s new upcoming action-horror series The Strain, created by Chuck ...

It’ll probably come as no surprise to his fans, but, once again, Guillermo del Toro has proven himself worthy of praise as he is the first to contribute to the funding of a life-size Edgar Allen Poe statue that will ...

When Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) originally conceived the idea for The Strain it was as a pitch for a television show. At the time, 2008 or so, he already had made a name for himself with plenty ...

Legendary Pictures has booked the Pinewood Toronto Studios for filming Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film Crimson Peak. Filming is to begin in February of 2014, after del Toro has wrapped production on the pilot episode of his FX show ...

Remakes are coming out even faster and even more furious, it seems. Only 14 years after Universal’s action-adventure take on The Mummy, we may soon get a Mummy reboot helmed by Mama‘s wunderkind director Andrés Muschietti. Mama was a surprise ...

When news hit the web of Benedict Cumberbatch leaving of Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, speculation began on why, as he followed the departure of Emma Stone. Rumors circulated that it was to re-team with J.J. Abrams on Star Wars ...