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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.

6. Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2 The monsters in the game...

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.

Related After Silent Hill 2 Remake, There's An Obvious Choice For Bloober's Next Game

Bloober Team defied...

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.

Cronos: The New Dawn Looks A Lot Like Our Favorite Titles

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...

Ready for Halloween? So is Max. The streamer just debuted their month-long Halloween and horror movie celebration, dubbed “No Sleep October,” and we’ve got the full list for your perusal.

There’s a batch of A24 horror movies that includes favorites like “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Midsommar” alongside new releases “MaXXXine” and “I Saw the TV Glow.”

Timed to the release of Max’s “Salem’s Lot” adaptation from “Anabelle Comes Home” director Gary Dauberman, which debuts on Oct. 3, Max also has a collection of Stephen King movies, including Tobe Hooper’s 1979 mini-series adaptation, “It” and “It: Chapter Two,” “The Shining” and “Doctor Sleep.”

And with the streaming debut of “Trap” landing on Max on Oct. 25, M. Night Shyamalan is also getting the spotlight with a collection that includes “Unbreakable,” “The Sixth Sense” and “The Visit.”

Finally, there are of course plenty of horror and Halloween classics, including “A Nightmare on Elm Street,...

Guillermo del Toro's latest film, a project inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel, has finished production. The Academy Award-winning director of films like The Shape of Water and Crimson Peak took to X, formerly known as Twitter, in order to announce he finished making his latest film. Del Toro posted the following: "Shooting has been completed on F - Joy!!!" So, while he didn't exactly give readers more details about the film, it's exciting to see him celebrating the completion of his high-profile horror film, which is due to debut on Netflix.

The film, the unofficial title of which is currently Frankenstein, is a new adaptation of Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the most important horror/science fiction novels ever written, and one that has inspired countless versions of the "man plays God" concept. The film's details are being kept tightly under wraps, and...

Like most visionary directors, Guillermo del Toro tends to be divisive. Despite his gregarious and charming personality, his famous movies, from Cronos to Nightmare Alley, can divide fans. There are those who think hes a genius, weaving in a deep love of cinema and especially monsters, and those who feel like hes more of a glorified production designer, able to bring in disparate elements but rarely telling a cohesive story.

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Ron Perlman is a scientist whose concerns may not be as crazy as some think in Succubus. Perlman is one of the most celebrated character actors throughout his near-50-year career, having starred in everything from The Adventures of Huck Finn and Alien Resurrection to his Golden Globe-winning turn in the Beauty and the Beast TV show, Batman: The Animated Series and the animated Teen Titans show, among many others. Perlman is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, which began with 1993's Cronos and continued with Blade II, the Hellboy movies, Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley and Pinocchio.

Perlman stars in Succubus as Dr. Orion Zephyr, an astrophysicist whose career is thrown into turmoil when a series of scandals, including his research into the titular subject, leads to him being fired. Upon learning that a man named Chris,...

George R.R. Martin appears really interested in bringing one of his older works onto the screen. At a time when fans want him to finish The Winds of Winter, Martin puts a major focus on the screen adaptations of his works. He recently revealed his desire to adapt the 1982 horror novel, Fevre Dream, into a film. And he has met with a legend to helm such a project, Guillermo del Toro.

George R.R. Martin | Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Martin shared the director’s interest in the project while also mentioning that it might take some time before it takes off. They have also found the perfect actor to take the lead role in the film, Hellboy actor Ron Perlman. Del Toro is currently busy with his passion project, Frankenstein.

George R.R. Martin Wants A Fevre Dream Adaptation With Guillermo Del Toro Guillermo del Toro | GuillemMedina,...

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In The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth is no stranger to enormous creatures. From the Balrog of Moria to Shelob in Mordor, Tokien's world is filled with oversized monstrosities that terrorize those unfortunate enough to cross their paths. One such creature was the dragon Smaug, who claimed Erebor and all of its wealth from the Dwarves with relative ease. Despite Smaug's gargantuan size, the dragon was nowhere near the largest creature ever to roam Middle-earth, as another member of his species takes that trophy by a landslide.

The Hobbit never provides a specific size for Smaug. However, from J.R.R. Tolkien's drawings and notes, it's assumed the dragon's depiction in the Peter Jackson trilogy is pretty accurate. Smaug was able to fit in the door to Erebor but was also large enough to destroy most of Lake-town when he fell from being shot by Bard the Bowman.

After Peter Jackson redefined fantasy cinema with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he returned to try and make lightning strike twice with The Hobbit. However, Jackson didn't always intend to direct the sequel trilogy, as Guillermo del Toro was once attached to the director's chair. Cate Blanchett, who appeared in both trilogies as the elf Galadriel, remembers when del Toro was in charge of the project and wonders what the unique director would have brought to the franchise. The horror auteur behind Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, Cronos, and Blade II would have brought his fantastical gothic vision to the Lord of the Rings franchise.

Cate Blanchett spoke to GQ to look back at her most iconic characters throughout her career. While discussing her vital role in The Lord of the Rings, the actress was asked about her time appearing in The Hobbit and if she ever worked with...

Guillermo del Toro’s boundless imagination, from the gothic horrors of “Crimson Peak” to the creature-feature-inspired “The Shape of Water,” has been cultivated by a lifelong love of cinema. The Mexican filmmaker proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, while championing the past and future of moviegoing and movie-making. Just take his latest projects.

There’s the stunning, stop-motion “Pinocchio” reimagining, which is leagues better than Disney’s straight-to-streaming competitor — far too slick for its own good (no matter how much Tom Hanks tried). And, also at Netflix, there’s the “Cabinet of Curiosities“: an eight-part horror anthology that unfortunately does not include any directing from del Toro, but does feature his writing, producing, and a Rod Serling-like “Twilight Zone” style intro for each episode.

Before that, the 2021 show business noir “Nightmare Alley” saw del Toro loosely remake a 1947 classic, but he also imbued plenty of his own...

Three-time Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro has had as many failures in Hollywood as he's had successes. Known for his darkly imaginative films like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, the visionary director has been attached to numerous projects that, despite his special genius, never made it to the silver screen. Guillermo del Toro's style combines fairy-tale-inspired plots with horror tropes infused with romantically terrifying creatures.

The entertainment industry has a purgatory called Development Hell, where projects die in the pre-production stage, never progressing. Sadly, these projects never get made, no matter the caliber of the creatives involved. From the beginning of his career in the 1990s to today, Guillermo del Toro has had dozens of projects that never came to be. From varying origins from his early love of animation that never abated to the possibility of adapting the work of a genre icon, the Oscar winner...

I’ve been on a bit of a Larry Fessenden kick lately either intentionally or by circumstance. I really wanted to talk about the movie Late Phases which has a cameo from the man and his name in the produced by section. This led to one of our favorites in Danielle Harris wishing that more people knew about a movie she did called Stake Land. While this had a six degrees of separation angle attached to it with Late Phases star Nick Damichi also starring and writing Stake Land, it also brought back Fessenden in his comfortable producer role, oh and another cameo. We’ve gone down another rabbit hole and heard from the man himself that The Last Winter (watch it Here) is a movie of his that he wishes had been seen by more people. This movie see’s Larry in not only his producing and cameo roles...

The hit FX series Sons of Anarchy has been widely regarded as one of the most well-cast shows in the history of television. It not only helped elevate the careers of cast members like Charlie Hunnam and Ryan Hurst, but it also included highly memorable performances from legendary Golden Globe-winning talent like Katey Segal and Ron Perlman in particular. As the villainous Clay Morrow, the uncle/step-father of the protagonist, Jax Teller, Perlman gave a standout performance, channeling a vicious and intimidating energy that fans would be hard-pressed to forget. Some may be shocked to learn, however, that Perlman had nearly missed out on playing what has been thought of as one of his most memorable characters. In fact, in the original pilot, Clay was played by an entirely different actor.

It's definitely not uncommon for pilots of certain series to undergo a process of recasting when they get officially...

Hollywood has yet to find a filmmaker who can do what Guillermo del Toro can. With films like Cronos and Pan’s Labyrinth, he has time and again proven why he is simply the best of the best. However, when it was time to unveil the first look of his 2013 film, Pacific Rim, even he couldn’t keep his nerves under control. While it is now considered to be one of the best films to have paid appropriate tribute to Japan’s anime and kaiju culture, Guillermo del Toro was not too confident about the film.

A still from Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

As the filmmaker prepared himself for the release of the film’s trailer to a live crowd, he simply couldn’t keep his calm. Just moments before the fans, who love him so dearly, could see what Guillermo del Toro had in store for him, the filmmaker voiced his fears to his wife.

Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim" remains one of the very best live-action films inspired by anime that wasn't actually based on anime (though it eventually became one). The 2013 movie is essentially about giant robots fighting kaiju. Its influences are many, from kaiju movies like "Godzilla" and the work of Ray Harryhausen, but also clearly tokusatsu like del Toro's beloved "Ultraman" and even mecha anime like "Gunbuster," "Getter Robo," and "Mazinger Z."

"Pacific Rim," arguably more so than "The Matrix," feels like the biggest American movie inspired by anime, a movie made by someone who loves the medium, at a time when anime was starting to enter the mainstream. But if you asked Guillermo del Toro that question shortly before the release of the film, it seems he would have been a nervous wreck.

David S. Cohen's book "Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters — The Inner Workings of an Epic...

Guillermo del Toro’s love for cinema has always fascinated fans. The Shape of Water director recently revealed that he has been involved in giving his touch to a few movies with huge fanbases, and fans are over the moon.

Guillermo del Toro. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

del Toro has been one of the greatest filmmakers of the generation, especially in his go-to genre. The Pan’s Labyrinth director blends fantasy and drama with his unique signature touch that keeps the moviegoers at the edges of their seats.

Guillermo del Toro’s Personal Touch On Blade II

Wesley Snipes in Blade II

In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Guillermo del Toro revealed four movies— Crimson Peak, Cronos, Mimic, and Blade II are in the process of 4K transfer and will be out possibly next year.

“4 new 4K transfers coming up: Crimson Peak, then Cronos, Blade II and finally Mimic...

4K is about to get a lot darker, as director Guillermo del Toro teased over the weekend that four more of his films will be hitting the format within “the next year or so”. They are: his 1993 debut Cronos, 1997 follow-up Mimic, 2002’s Hellboy, and 2015’s Crimson Peak, which is one of del Toro’s most visually striking features.

In an X post from yesterday, Guillermo del Toro wrote, “4 new 4K transfers coming up: Crimson Peak, then Cronos, Blade II and finally Mimic all in the next year or so. I am done with the color timing of 3 out of the 4.” Note that these releases will not be coming out simultaneously or in chronological order.

4 new 4K transfers coming up: Crimson Peak, then Cronos, Blade II and finally Mimic all in the next year or so. I am done with the color timing of 3 out of the 4.

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT...