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In the rather niche academic field of monster studies, the common understanding of monstrosity is very similar to that of queerness: through being “different,” a monster destabilizes historical notions of normality and normativity, exposing how fictitious they were in the first place. In the case of Victor Frankenstein and his creation, per Mary Shelley’s eponymous novel, this defining relationship cannot be any more obvious. Maker and creature form an inseparable whole, laying bare an interdependency in the way we describe humanity: always against its “other.” When such motifs dominate Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, from Cronos to Golden Lion and Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, his highly...

Many new games are getting released in the first week of September 2025, and most eyes are on Hollow Knight Silksong. That game isn’t your jam; there are plenty more games that will get released to keep you company. Without wasting time, let’s get started.

Game NameRelease DateMETAL EDENSeptember 2, 2025.Hollow Knight: SilksongSeptember 4, 2025.Hell Is UsSeptember 4, 2025.Kemono TeatimeSeptember 4, 2025.Cronos: The New DawnSeptember 5, 2025.NBA 2K26September 5, 2025.Daemon X Machina: Titanic ScionSeptember 5, 2025. 1. Hollow Knight Silksong – PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 1/2, Steam PC – September 4, 2025 – Price Tbd Finally, it is being released. | Image Credit: Team Cherry.

Hollow Knight Silksong is finally getting its awaited release this week. The new game takes us...

Guillermo del Toro is such a revered artist and an adored man that his status as a cheerleader of filmmaking craftspeople and hands-on artisans, his adulation for the art form itself, and his fight to keep it alive against the headwinds of artistry-crushing change might seem to overshadow the actual work. A genius who’s not another brilliant asshole? A filmmaker who’s generous with his time and attention and emotion? That’s rare.

“Nightmare Alley” was a dreary mess, but who else could have nearly pulled off a remake of an obscure noir picture lost to time, retrofitted with style and glaze for the modern era? Who thought we needed another “Pinocchio” movie until del Toro turned the Italian fable into a stop-motion marvel, a film that prioritized actual human art-making over AI, CGI, and even that other I, IP, for its own sake?

His version of “Frankenstein,” a big,...

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is easily one of the most anticipated films of the year. But for Del Toro, it’s also the culmination of decades of dreaming. The Oscar-winning genre auteur has waited years to make his dream project, and now it’s finally coming this fall.

Del Toro’s waited so long to make Frankenstein, in fact, that he says you can see the echoes of it in all of his early films. In a new interview, he noted that you can go all the way back to his very first feature and see the story’s “DNA.”

“It’s a movie I wanted to make before I even had a camera,” Del Toro told Variety. “There’s the DNA of Frankenstein on Cronos, on Blade II, on Hellboy. And we were developing it at Universal before they passed. I pitched it everywhere. It’s been my Mount Everest to climb.

One of the most underrated Universal Pictures monster mash-up movies is heading to Peacock as its new streaming home.

Universal Pictures' 1943 classic Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman is officially about to be added to the Peacock streaming library. Fans will be able to stream Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman on Peacock beginning Sept. 1.

Directed by Roy William Neill from a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman follows the events of both 1941's The Wolf Man and 1942's The Ghost of Frankenstein, albeit with several retcons to both being made along the way. Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman stars Universal horror icons Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi in reprisals of their...

It took more than 20 years, $120 million and many pounds of prosthetics and makeup to allow Guillermo del Toro to bring his vision of “Frankenstein” to life.

The hero’s journey that del Toro traveled with one of filmdom’s foundational creatures is the subject of this week’s Variety cover story. “Frankenstein” stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac detail the difficult shoot that required long days in Scotland and Toronto. Brent Lang, Variety‘s executive editor, and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety‘s co-Editor in Chief, teamed up to tell the backstory of the latest iteration of Mary Shelley’s enduring yarn. Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” premieres Aug. 30 at the Venice Film Festival, which aims to position the creature feature as an Oscar contender.

“What stands out to me the most is how much of a passion project this truly is,” Lang says. “This is something [del Toro’s] been thinking about making since he...

One of the most highly anticipated games of 2025 is set to release in just a few weeks. Horror fans are incredibly excited to get their hands on this upcoming release, and Bloober Team was kind enough to give players an additional teaser ahead of launch.

In an exciting Gamescom reveal, Bloober Team's Cronos: The New Dawngot a brand-new gameplay/cinematic trailer ahead of its September 5 release. The trailer shows players some of the incredible enemies and gameplay they can look forward to next month.

Cronos: The New Dawn Still Looks Creepy This One Will Not Be For The Faint Of Heart Screenshot by Nicholas Becher

It comes as no surprise that the new trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn is still absolutely terrifying, and if you had any doubts about what type of game it's going to be, this trailer should make it pretty clear. Cronos: The New Dawn's newest...

Over the years, there has been some impressive and diverse talent showcased internationally for the sake of good storytelling in cinema. Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made the film ‘The Seven Samurai,’ which inspired an American film director to make ‘The Magnificent Seven.’ African-American film director Spike Lee has received mainstream recognition for his films, such as ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ and Oscar-winning hit ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ which reminds his audiences of the history and modern-day struggles of the average African-American. In 2019, there was even recognition of the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, who wrote and directed the four-time Academy Award-winning film ‘Parasite,’ a dark comedy thriller drama that tells a story about a poor South Korean family who takes advantage of a wealthy family. Amidst this international talent, three Mexican filmmakers, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, have earned the nickname the ‘Three Amigos’ for their groundbreaking contributions to cinema.

For those who’ve been wondering just what the story for Cronos: The New Dawn is about, Bloober Team has your answer with a new developer diary. Featuring Lead Writer and Narrative Designer Grzegorz Like and Game Producer Klaudia Sewera, the video delves into the origins of the story for Cronos, the mysterious Traveler exploring the ruins of Krakow’s Nowa Huta region, and more.

In the video, the duo discuss what’s referred to as the heart of the story for Cronos: the mysterious Traveler. As well, Sewera and Like reveal more about the game’s complex narrative, such as how souls are extracted, who must be chosen, and what the true purpose of the Travelers. This isn’t just a horror story, but rather a journey through time, identity, and the haunting remains of a broken world.

Additionally, players will become more familiar with a new character known as the Warden,...

The world of horror in the gaming industry is a crowded one, and only a few franchises have managed to make a name for themselves as great as the Dead Space series has. Now, more than a decade later, we have Cronos: The New Dawn by Bloober Team, which many are calling the spiritual successor to one of EA’s most beloved horror franchises ever.

What’s even better is how now we have a release date at hand, and the game’s finally going to be made available on September 5, 2025, releasing day one on the Nintendo Switch 2 as revealed in July 31’s Nintendo Direct, which focused on third-party games coming to the platform.

While how the game looks and feels on the new handheld console is still a matter of concern, the very fact that we are getting a major new-gen horror game day one on Switch 2 shows that...

Guillermo del Toro's Frankensteinhas finally been unveiled, and his monster is everything fans were hoping to see.

Fans got their first look at Guillermo del Toro's version of the infamous Frankenstein's Monster, not to mention stars Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac, and other stars from the director's upcoming Frankenstein feature film, all courtesy of Vanity Fair. Along with the exclusive image reveals, several of which can be seen below, the exclusive also included an interview with Del Toro, during which he dove deep into the essence of his Frankenstein, promising that, "[Boris] Karloff looms eternal. Bernie [Wrightston] looms eternal. But we are not doing Karloff and we're not doing Bernie, and we're not doing Mary [Shelley]."

"This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state.

We are just four months away from the premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix movie Frankenstein, which will be coming to life on the streaming service in November 2025. While you wait, Vanity Fair ran a massive preview piece this morning with brand new images.

“We are just doing a beautiful mass. The church is not built by us, but we are delivering a great, passionate soul-searing sermon in that church,” Del Toro teases in his interview with Vanity Fair. “[Boris] Karloff looms eternal. Bernie [Wrightston] looms eternal. But we are not doing Karloff and we’re not doing Bernie, and we’re not doing Mary [Shelley].”

“But I’ll say this,” he continues. “Mary Shelley and Bernie Wrightson and Karloff are as important to me as my father and mother. They gave birth to who I am, period.”

Check out Vanity Fair’s new images from Gdt’s Frankenstein below.

“This is,...

We Are What We Are will be released on Blu-ray on August 26 via IFC.

Known in Spanish as Somos lo que hay, the 2010 Mexican cannibal film is written and directed by Jorge Michel Grau (The ABCs of Death).

Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato, Humberto Yáñez, and Jorge Zárate star. Daniel Giménez Cacho reprises his role as Tito the Coroner from Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos.

Special features:

Audio commentary by The Spanish Fantastic author Shelagh Rowan-Legg and writer/lecturer Mo Moshaty Making-of featurette Theatrical trailer Booklet with new writing by film scholar Valeria Villegas Lindvall

When its patriarch drops dead in the street, a devastated Mexican clan turns to the eldest son to provide for it — by hunting human flesh. Bound together by a terrible secret and monstrous appetites, the family can only survive if he finds a way to continue their mysterious cannibalistic rituals.

We Are What We Are...

Bloober Team, the iconic developers behind the Silent Hill 2 remake, have finally showcased their next horror banger in the Xbox June Games Showcase, titled Cronos: The New Dawn, and fans of the psychological horror genre have immediately taken notice.

What’s special about the upcoming title is how it has been long anticipated. The developers have also revealed how they take inspiration from two other major titless, one of them being Dead Space, and the other being a horror hit by none other than Remedy Entertainment.

Cronos: The New Dawn takes inspiration from these two horror hits

What sets Cronos apart is that it’s not just inspired by Dead Space, but it also quietly draws inspiration from another cult horror title, Alan Wake. At first glance, Cronos: The New Dawn might look like Bloober Team’s take on Dead Space, thanks to the gross mutations and the eerie world the player walks through,...

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein continues a rating trend for the iconic monster story. The upcoming Netflix movie, which premieres in November, is an adaptation of the classic 1818 horror novel of the same name by Mary Shelley. The upcoming Frankenstein features a star-studded cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Charles Dance, Christian Convery, Ralph Ineson, and Christoph Waltz. It marks del Toro's first reimagining of an iconic Universal monster since his Oscar-winning 2017 movie The Shape of Water drew inspiration from 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Per FilmRatings.com, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein has been given an MPA rating of R, which continues a modern trend of adaptations of the original Mary Shelley novel becoming more graphic, violent, and adult in the modern age. The majority of the best-known early adaptations or continuations of the literary classic are either rated PG, PG-13, or Approved (during the pre-mpa...

The first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix movie Frankenstein arrived this past weekend (watch it down below), and now the film has received its official rating from the MPA.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein is rated “R” for “bloody violence and grisly images.”

Frankenstein comes alive on Netflix in November 2025.

“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience over the weekend at Netflix’s Tudum event.

“There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again,...

Netflix has unveiled a closer look at Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. This past Saturday, May 31st, at its Tudum 2025 Live Event, the streamer treated audiences to a first look at the anticipated trailer for the acclaimed filmmaker's latest monster movie. The trailer itself focuses primarily on Oscar Isaac's portrayal of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, offering a preview of the tortured mind of the seemingly mad scientist. We also catch a brief glimpse of Jacob Elordi's statuesque and powerful Monster.

While the trailer — which you can watch below — certainly alludes to elements that might typically be associated with horror, del Toro recently shared a surprising revelation about his approach to Frankenstein. During this year's Cannes Film Festival, he discussed the film with its Academy Award-winning composer, Alexandre Desplat (known for The Shape of Water), revealing that his rendition is not a horror feature.

"Somebody asked me the other day,...

In seeking life, he created death.

The teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein is alive!

“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience tonight at Netflix Tudum.

“There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again. I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for over 25 years.

“It has grown so close to me that now it’s biography.

Some actors come in hot, they land a hot role, deliver an Oscar speech, and boom – a legend is born. And then there are others. The ones who never make a big fuss or grab the attention of the photographers when they step on the red carpet, and yet, keep delivering some of the finest performances of their generation. These are some of the actors who quietly build careers not because of the fame that comes with it, but because of their love for cinema.

These are some of the faces you recognize but can’t always put a name to. They show up in your favorite movies, improve every scene they are in significantly, and then disappear to do their next great role. No ego, no spotlight, just working with some of the finest directors.

Today, we are going to refocus that spotlight and shine it on these actors...

Acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro explains why his Frankensteinisn't quite a horror film.

Per Variety, del Toro discussed the true nature lurking in the heart of his upcoming adaptation of Frankenstein during an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in France. "Somebody asked me the other day, 'Does it really have scary scenes?' For the first time, I considered that. It's an emotional story for me," del Toro explained. "It's as personal as anything. I'm asking a question about being a father, being a son… I'm not doing a horror movie — ever. I’m not trying to do that."

Frankenstein is set to be just the latest in a long line of subversive creature features from del Toro, who made his name in the industry with films such as Cronos (1992), Mimic (1997), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and The Shape of Water (2017). Development on Frankenstein began all the way back in 2008 when del...

Guillermo del Toro is taking a more sympathetic approach to the undead creature at the heart of his version of “Frankenstein.”

“Somebody asked me the other day, does it have really scary scenes?” del Toro said during a conversation at the Cannes Film Festival with Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat. “For the first time, I considered that. It’s an emotional story for me. It’s as personal as anything. I’m asking a question about being a father, being a son… I’m not doing a horror movie — ever. I’m not trying to do that.”

Desplat and del Toro were on stage discussing their collaborations on films like “The Shape of Water” and “Pinocchio” as a way of highlighting the pivotal role that music plays in moviemaking. They are working together once again on “Frankenstein,” which Netflix will release this fall. It sounds like they are aligned in not...

MCU icon Elizabeth Olsen, known for playing Wanda Maximoff in the superhero franchise, has joined Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart for the latest project by Panos Cosmatos titled Flesh of the Gods. The director, known for his revenge tale led by Nicolas Cage, Mandy, teams up with producers Adam McKay and Isaac, as they attempt to find a buyer for the project at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Olsen is now attached to the vampire project written by Se7en's Andrew Kevin Walker and Cosmatos. Per Deadline's report, the film's logline goes as follows: "Isaac and Stewart will portray Raoul and Alex, a married couple in glittering '80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous,...

Director Yves Montmayeur is currently working on a feature-length documentary about the Oscar-winning filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro.

For over 30 years, Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has fused the fantastical and the human, the beautiful and grotesque in a series of acclaimed films, TV shows, books and other works. Called Sangre Del Toro, a feature-length documentary is set to explore his life and output, from his early stop motion animated work and breakthrough live-action feature Cronos to his later, Oscar-winning success with such films as The Shape Of Water (2017) and Pinocchio (2022).

Currently in post-production, the documentary is by Yves Montmayeur, whose previous work includes The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin – about fellow filmmaker Guy Maddin – and Citizen Kitano – a portrait of Japanese actor, director and all-round polymath Takeshi ‘beat’ Kitano. In other words, Montmayeur knows how to tell a unique filmmaker’s story.

Variety reports that Sangre Del Toro has been picked...

This month, director Ryan Coogler gives the vampire genre some fresh blood with his absolutely fantastic action-horror-musical "Sinners." There have been several vampire movies released recently, and to be honest, the majority of them have been rather disappointing. Thankfully, "Sinners" changes all of that — it's one of the best movies of the year. In honor of "Sinners," this month's horror streaming column is rounding up some great vampire movies you can watch right now. So bust out your plastic fangs, tie on your cape, and get ready to suck some blood!

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Blacula

Streaming on Tubi, Kanopy, Pluto TV, Prime Video.

"Blacula" is one of those movies everyone knows about even if they've never seen it. I mean, it's called "Blacula," and that's the type of title you pay attention to. This blaxploitation horror flick begins in the late 1700s and introduces us...

It has been 12 years since Pacific Rim hit theatres, and even though the possibility of a threequel from Guillermo del Toro remains unlikely, this hasn’t stopped fans from reliving the iconic monster/robot spectacle. But amidst its brilliant cast, it’s Ron Perlman, who ends up stealing every scene he is in as Hannibal Chau.

Pacific Rim | Credit: Warner Bros.

As for his casting in the acclaimed sci-fi epic, Del Toro specifically wrote Hannibal Chau for his former collaborator Perlman, who had a blast playing the role.

Guillermo del Toro penned Hannibal Chau for Ron Perlman after one character Ron Perlman in Pacific Rim | Credit: Warner Bros.

Although a $180M monster-versus-robot spectacle seems more in line with a studio-driven movie, Pacific Rim was as heartfelt for Guillermo del Toro as his other cinematic ventures, who confessed, “They’re all for me.” This also served as a reunion between the...

Bloober Team has released the first developer diary for their upcoming sci-fi horror shooter Cronos: The New Dawn. Revealed during the Future Games Show at the 2025 Game Developers Conference, the video features co-directors Wojciech Piejko and Jacek Zięba discussing gameplay mechanics while also showing new footage of Cronos in action.

Along with the developers answering questions about the game, the video also reveals more about the protagonist in Cronos, the desolate future landscape of alternate 1980s Poland, and the monsters players will encounter. Piejko and Zięba also tease that larger, gameplay-focused content for the game will be unveiled in the near future.

Inspired by Terry Gilliam‘s 12 Monkeys and John Carpenter, Cronos is put players in the role of a Traveler, an agent of the enigmatic Collective with a mission to extract selected people who didn’t survive the apocalypse from the past. To complete the Collective’s mission,...

Vampire movies were once very popular among fans, especially during the turn of the 21st century. It was so in demand that the industry became oversaturated with storylines centered on hot and brooding bloodsuckers. Ask anyone if they’ve seen or heard about Twilight, and more often than not, the answer is yes.

Robert Pattinson in Twilight | Credits: Summit Entertainment

Years before the arrival of Edward Cullen, we had Guillermo del Toro introducing a different kind of vampire that we’ve never seen before—no handsome guy glistening under the sun and no s*xual undertones that most gothic films portray whenever they feature vampiric characters.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos deviated from Hollywood’s erotic vampire trope

Guillermo del Toro has taken us inside his magical world of monsters, and those who have followed his works through the years are aware of his experimentations when it comes to modern folklore.

In 2023, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature — the Mexican-born filmmaker’s third Academy Award since first winning in 2018 for “The Shape of Water.” As del Toro held this statue once more, a reporter asked him what the award would say if it had Pinocchio’s speech ability. The director answered in Spanish, “It would tell me he’s Indio Fernández.”

His quip references the long-rumored connection between the statuette and Mexican director/actor Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, who allegedly modeled for the Oscar statue’s design during his stay in the United States — just before becoming one of the most notable filmmakers of Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema. Del Toro holding this piece of cinematic history is alluringly symbolic, especially given the filmmaker’s prolific Hollywood status 30-plus years after his debut “Cronos.” It wasn’t until Alfonso Cuarón’s 2014 Best Director win...

A thin line exists in Guillermo del Toro’s Spanish-language trilogy between exaltation and blasphemy and damnation and transcendence. Over the course of Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, and Pan’s Labyrinth, characters scurry to justify their wants with religious and political ideology, laundering their wills and longings through cultural precedent.

Lost in these machinations is an elemental sense of morality, which the supernatural cathartically returns to the fore. This thin line is explicated by a villain in Cronos who likens Jesus to a mosquito, reasoning that both could walk on water, and so humankind was meant to harness the abilities of the insect. The differences between Christ, a savior, and a common parasite seem to be of no consequence, as they’re linked by this aging capitalist for their common wielding of power.

Del Toro is a moralist drawn to the platitudes of parable, and these films, with their prodigiously textured...

Stars: Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Ron Perlman, Tamara Shanath, Margarita Isabel, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Farnesio de Bernal | Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos is a striking debut that foreshadows the filmmaker’s signature blend of horror, fantasy, and emotional depth. Though often overlooked in favour of his later works like Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) or The Shape of Water (2017), Cronos is a vital piece of his filmography, demonstrating his fascination with monsters, morality, and the intersection of beauty and decay.

At its core, Cronos is a vampire film, but unlike conventional entries in the genre, it eschews many of the traditional tropes. The film tells the story of Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi), an elderly antique dealer who stumbles upon a mysterious golden device hidden inside an ancient statue. This device—the Cronos mechanism—contains an insect-like creature that grants its user eternal youth but at a terrible cost.

A mysterious mechanical object offers life-giving vitality – but with macabre consequences – in the Mexican maestro’s steampunkish body-horror comedy

Guillermo del Toro’s feature debut from 1992 is a work regarded by many as an early masterpiece, featuring the director’s key repertory players Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman. Yet for all its wit and strangeness, this film underscores my feeling I am not fully part of the Del Toro true believer fanbase. I find myself restive at the elaborate, intricate but sometimes slightly inert visual contrivances, though I have always enjoyed his films, perhaps especially his remake of Nightmare Alley.

Cronos is a macabre body-horror comedy, perhaps more intriguing than frightening, with a hint of steampunkiness; it looks almost like a feature-length pilot for some cult TV show that never got made. There is a faintly perfunctory prologue sequence about an “alchemist” in the 16th century who invented the Cronos,...

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio might have been one of his crowning achievements, but the film has been revealed to be the final interaction of a different project that goes back to del Toro’s earliest days. Omnivore was set to be a very different kind of monster film, employing animation similar to that of Pinocchio in the form of claymation.

Pinocchio || Credit: Netflix

The production for Omnivore was in place even before Guillermo del Toro did Cronos. However, when the miniatures that were made for the film were thoroughly vandalized, del Toro decided to move on with a live-action project instead, leaving the film to never get a second shot at a production.

Guillermo del Toro prefers animation to live-action A still from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio || Credit: Netflix

Guillermo del Toro revealed, during an interview with IndieWire, that he would rather do a lot more animated stuff than live-action.

There are rarely a few directors in Hollywood who can compete with Guillermo del Toro’s iconic works like Cronos, Hellboy, and Pan’s Labyrinth. Yet, there was a time when even the acclaimed filmmaker faced a bit of anxiety when it came for him to unveil the first look of Pacific Rim, at the 2013 Comic-Con, against Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro | image: Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc-by-sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Although the movie later became one of the most appreciated pieces of art to pay tribute to Japan’s anime and kaiju culture, Guillermo del Toro wasn’t quite confident about his film, during the Comic-Con. Considering how he almost disappeared from the industry for around five years, before returning with Pacific Rim, del Toro believed people would not way appreciate his movie against Snyder’s DC flick.

Guillermo del Toro was anxious about competing...

Fans are frantic for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein to arrive in 2025, but not everyone realizes that it will be the final film in a series. His informal "Father Trilogy" currently includes Nightmare Alley and Pinocchio, whose heroes struggle with paternal relationships — not unlike Frankenstein's Monster. This focus makes sense in light of the 1997 kidnapping of del Toro's father, whose ransom was supposedly paid by James Cameron. Recently Del Toro amended that rumor, but the event has obviously influenced his art.

Guillermo del Toro has hinted that his version of Frankenstein will include elements of Mary Shelley's novel that have never been filmed before, but fans can expect a focus on the father-son relationship between the scientist and his creation. It is also likely to be affected by the memory of del Toro's 72-day ordeal trying to rescue his father, and his subsequent self-imposed exile from his homeland of Mexico.

Beta Fiction Spain, the No. 1 independent distributor in the country this year thanks to a barn-storming €8.0 million ($8.3 million) box office gross from Arantxa Echevarría’s “Undercover,” is set to produce new films from Marcel Barrena and Dani de la Orden, directors of two other big 2024 Spanish breakouts: “El 47” and “A House in Flames.”

With Echevarría attached to direct biopic “Dolores,” Beta Fiction Spain now has in development movies by three of the five directors behind films nominated for Best Picture at Feb. 8’s Spanish Academy Goya Awards.

In all, Beta Fiction Spain releases look set to gross a total €15.2 million ($15.8 million) at Spanish theaters, a considerable achievement given it only launched in May 2022 and released just seven films in 2024, compared to the dozen or so titles it plans to open in Spain from 2025, its first full year of business.

Fresh off “El 47,” a Mediapro Studio production which punched...

Ron Perlman has had a remarkable career. His first film was an Oscar winner (Quest for Fire) from a great director; later that decade, he'd win a Golden Globe for the TV series Beauty and the Beast. He's been in everything from big franchise movies and international arthouse films to indie horror and numerous classics with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. But when MovieWeb spoke with Perlman about his new film with Liam Neeson, Absolution, he surprised us when he named the film in his career that he's the proudest of — and it's one hardly anybody has seen.

"I had a production company for about five or six years called Wing and a Prayer Pictures, and I produced about nine movies," explained Perlman. He continued:

"And the first one we identified was called Asher, and it was actually the last movie we produced. It was the movie that killed the company.

The search is over. Cronos will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 25 via The Criterion Collection.

Writer-director Guillermo del Toro supervised the new 4K digital restoration, presented in Dolby Vision Hdr with 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio.

Del Toro made his feature debut on the 1993 Mexican vampire film, which stars Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, and Tamara Shanath.

Special Features include:

Optional original Spanish-language voice-over introduction Audio commentary by Guillermo del Toro Audio commentary by producers Arthur H. Gorson and Bertha Navarro and co-producer Alejandro Springall Geometria – An unreleased 1987 short horror film by del Toro, finished in 2010, alongside an interview with the director Welcome to Bleak House – A tour by del Toro of his home office Interviews with del Toro, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, and actors Ron Perlman and Federico Luppi Stills gallery captioned by del Toro Trailer An essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and...

Few within our industry can achieve what the Bloober Team managed to pull off with Silent Hill 2’s Remake, bringing a timeless story about broken, miserable people from 2001 to the current era.

James at the Observatory Deck in Silent Hill 2 – Image Credit: Bloober Team.

Yet, for all that the game accomplished critically and commercially, it isn’t going to contend for the one award that matters more than any other, leaving many to feel as though the developer got robbed of a well-deserving shot at the Goty Award.

However, the bigger question that some now have is whether Cronos: The New Dawn, Bloober’s next title, can deliver what was lost this year.

Silent Hill 2 May Not Get the Goty Award, but Bloober Team Is Still Hard at Work on Its Next Title Laura in Silent Hill 2 – Image Credit: Bloober Team.

Now, it’s already major...

Physical media collectors, take note. The Criterion Collection has announced six new Blu-ray releases coming in February 2025, including titles from some of today’s most beloved auteurs and one famously elusive late-career work from a French New Wave legend.

The slate is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard’s “King Lear,” an essential work from the “Breathless” director’s experimental period that has long been unavailable to own or stream. The film uses William Shakespeare’s tragedy as a jumping off point for a postmodern riff on art in a world decimated by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. While it shares little DNA with the actual play that shares its name, “King Lear” contains some of the most striking imagery of Godard’s filmography, including the director himself donning a Rastafarian wig made entirely of electrical cables. The nonlinear film is a pastiche of influences, references, and ideas that stands out to many...

The Criterion Collection has unveiled its February 2025 lineup, featuring 4K Uhd upgrades for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos. Also among the lineup is one of the great rom-coms, Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey, alongside Gus Van Sant’s second feature Drugstore Cowboy.

Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language feature King Lear and Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance are also coming to the collection, the latter featuring Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007), a documentary about the making of the film.

Check out the cover art below and learn more here.

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Guillermo del Toro’s directorial debut, Cronos, is arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time in February 2025. More here.

It’s been a little while since Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round good egg Guillermo del Toro reveals that 4K remasters were ongoing for a bunch of his films. Here’s evidence of one of them, with the announcement of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray debut for his 1992 feature, Cronos.

Written and directed by del Toro, Cronos is his directorial debut, and it arrives on 4K disc on 10th February 2025. Our 4K release list has been updated accordingly.

You can find the listing for Cronos on 4K disc here, where you can also order a copy.

The BFI is putting the movie out in the UK, and it’s clearly gone to town on the new release. There’s a huge bunch of extra features (one or two of...

Guillermo del Toro has established himself as one of the most immersive horror directors, and it all started with a little-known horror film called Cronos. Premiering in 1992, the film is finally getting a 4K physical release that fans have been waiting for. The film already had a DVD release in 2003 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment for its 10th anniversary and contained some quality special features like del Toros commentary tracks. However, according to Fangoria, this new release will supply fans with even more supplementary material for the following film:...

In video games, the theme of body horror has been explored thoroughly. Each games have its own variety of grotesque and unsettling monsters that blur the lines between humanity and monstrosity. From the twisted, nightmarish transformations possessed by corruption, infection, or dark magic, these monsters serve as haunting reminders of what can happen when the human body becomes a vessel for something sinister.

The body horror genre highlights the gruesome side of human experiments and fate. | Image Credit: BioWare

By creating these monstrous creations, developers want to provoke both fear and empathy. This way, players become intertwined with the narrative, driven by a desire to defeat or flee from these horrifying monsters, enhancing the gameplay experience even further. In this article, we’ll explore six memorable examples of human-turned-monsters in gaming that have left a long-lasting mark on players.

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Cronos: The New Dawn has finally been given a release window amid its developers' recent success. Cronos is the planned next title by Bloober Team, the studio behind the recent Silent Hill 2 remake. Putting its planned future Konami collaborations on the back burner, it looks like Bloober will focus on a completely original IP next.

Cronos: The New Dawn will now be released sometime in 2025, as was revealed during a recent Xbox Partner Preview. In an interview with GameSpot, director/producer Jacek Zieba claims that Bloober is leaving its checkered past behind, saying, "Okay, we made some s****y games before, but we [can] evolve." With a new focus on original IP and the proven success of the Silent Hill 2 remake behind it, Bloober appears to be turning over a new leaf.

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If you thought the horror gaming genre was going to slow down after the Silent Hill 2 remake and Alan Wake 2‘s new Dlc, you’d be happy to be wrong. Bloober Team is hot off the success of the SH2 remake and has just revealed Cronos: The New Dawn.

The game reminds fans a lot about old classics. | Image Credit: Bloober Team

The revealed third-person sci-fi survival horror is set for a 2025 release and has already been compared to Dead Space and Bioshock. Many fans are looking to Cronos to fill the void, especially with EA placing future Dead Space projects on hold.

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Bloober Team has been riding high on the success of the Silent Hill 2 remake, which surpassed one million sales just days after its release in October 2024. This success is crucial as the studio pivots...

The studio behind the Silent Hill 2 remake has just announced its next game in the works, but it's not another project in the Silent Hill series. Bloober Team's success with Silent Hill 2 expanded the audience for the horror game developer, previously responsible for hits like Layers of Fear and Observer. Although all of Bloober's games come with their share of detractors, consistently positive aggregate reviews and plenty of media attention have cemented the company as a major player in modern horror.

A new trailer on the official Bloober Team YouTube channel revealed Cronos: The New Dawn, a third-person survival horror game with a retro-futurist spin. The trailer focuses on an older woman playing chess against a menacing figure in a bulbous suit, who ultimately shoves the board aside and reaches for her with spider-like claws that unfold from its glove.

The Steam description for the game, which...

Fresh from their success with the Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team are venturing to space with their newest Survival Horror effort, Cronos: The New Dawn. Currently slated for a 2025 release for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series, Cronos marks Bloober Team’s first original IP in the survival horror genre.

Set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic future in 1980s Poland, Cronos: The New Dawn put players in the role of a Traveler, an agent of the enigmatic Collective with a mission to extract selected people who didn’t survive the apocalypse from the past. To complete the Collective’s mission, players will need to survive a deadly wasteland created by a cataclysmic event known as the Change, filled with monstrous abominations that will challenge players’ combat abilities.

“Following the success of Silent Hill 2, we are proud to present Cronos, an exciting new IP from Bloober Team,” said Piotr Babieno,...

Mexican-born auteur Guillermo del Toro hit the Oscar jackpot with his fantastical love story “The Shape of Water” (2017), which took home four prizes including Best Picture and Best Director. But that’s just one of many eye-popping fantasies he has crafted throughout his career. Let’s take a look back at all 12 of del Toro’s films, ranked worst to best.

Del Toro made his feature directing debut with the Spanish-language horror drama “Cronos” (1993), which established him as a maker of dark, visually-stunning fright-fests. The film wrote him a ticket to Hollywood, where he helmed the creepy chiller “Mimic” (1997). Over the next two decades, he would bounce back-and-forth between mainstream American productions and more personal stories in his native language.

It was for “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006), a fable about a young Mexican girl escaping into a terrifying fantasy realm during the falangist Spain of 1944, that del Toro reaped his first Oscar bid for Best Original Screenplay.

Today marks the launch of No Sleep October, a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike. Max’s brand new exclusive films, horror library, imaginative curations, designs, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars from fans’ favorite scary movies will haunt viewers and keep them up all night with fear.

No Sleep October brings horror fans three films only available to stream on Max, including Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

The new Max Original film Caddo Lake debuts on October 10. When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history. And in Trap, debuting October 25, a father and teen daughter attend a pop concert,...

October is here! Which means peak Halloween season is now underway, and that includes the launch of “No Sleep October,” a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike at Max. Max’s brand new exclusive films, a best-in-class horror library, imaginative curations, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars will keep you busy all month long.

Look for new Max Original Film, Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, “Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”

Max Original Film Caddo Lake arrives on October 10. “When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.” Celine Held & Logan George (Topside) wrote and directed for New Line Cinema, and the film...