Del Toro Recalls Making a BioShock Movie Pitch That Went Terribly Wrong
Guillermo del Toro admits his disastrous calls with BioShock creators made him walk away from the project. He's done.
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TV Reviews10/10
‘Wizards’ Closes Out Del Toro’s Arcadia Trilogy With a Perfect 10
A sorcerer forgotten for centuries travels through time to prove himself before his master in this final tale of Arcadia.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
Del Toro’s Frankenstein Makes the Monster the Tragic Figure
A slow-burn tragedy wherein a man's ambition creates a creature neither monster nor man, but a soul bound unto woe.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Mama review: a terrifying short stretched into a decent feature
Mama (2013), Andy Muschietti's debut, scares for an hour before explaining its ghost. A review of the Jessica Chastain horror hit.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Crimson Peak Review: A Beautiful, Uneven Haunted-House Film
Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak sinks into red clay: a gorgeous gothic romance haunted by ghosts it never fully believes in.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Blade II Review: Del Toro’s Bloodpack Elevates a Thin Script
Blade II review: Guillermo del Toro's 2002 sequel with Wesley Snipes, the Bloodpack and the Reapers. It grossed $155 million. Score: 5.2/10.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy Sequel Finds Its Soul in the Monsters, Not the Hero
Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army review: Ron Perlman, Luke Goss, troll market, Oscar makeup, $168.3M gross, and why the sequel still works.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy Turns Pulp Comics Into a Superhero Movie With Actual Texture
Guillermo del Toro's 2004 Hellboy gave us Ron Perlman as a demon with a job — a strange, confident superhero film that still holds up.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Del Toro’s Horror Anthology Finds Its Voice in the Spaces Between Monsters
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: eight horror tales on Netflix, curated and hosted by del Toro, drawing on Night Gallery, Gothic and Grand Guignol.
TV Reviews6.9/10
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia — A Solid, Ambitious Series That Kept a Lost Performance
Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters ran 52 episodes on Netflix, won big at the 2017 Emmys, and kept a late actor's performance intact.
Movie Reviews9.8/10
Pan’s Labyrinth at 20: Del Toro’s Dark Fantasy Still Refuses to Let Magic Excuse Cruelty
Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth premiered at Cannes in 2006 with a record 22-minute ovation. Two decades on, it remains a landmark of dark fantasy.
TV Reviews7.2/10
The Strain: A Good, Nasty, Occasionally Great Four-Season Vampire War
FX's vampire thriller The Strain ran four seasons and 46 episodes, created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. A look back at the series.