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It was a blurring mix of reality versus an imaginary escape from the terror and trauma. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) was the story of a girl who is forced to live with his fascist stepfather and how she retreats into a world of magic and frights where she happens to be a princess. Guillermo Del Toro’s these two movies The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth are most critically acclaimed. Two of his historic horror films were set in Spain and Spanish Civil War was the setting under the authoritarian law of Francisco Franco. This was also seen with the sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
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Del Toro gained great success at Blade II which starred Wesley Snipes as the renowned vampire hunter at its full gory and action and grossed more than $150 million worldwide.ĭel Toro’s other comic book adaptation Hellboy starred Perlman as the burly, demonic titular personality in a journey which was both action and comedy. Guillermo Del Toro’s next directing venture continued into world of horror and though the adaptations were from the comic book world, there were also a return of the vampires. Co-produced with a fellow filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, The Devil’s Backbone (2001) was a stark and somber tale which focused on a group of children who were struggling to survive during the Spanish Civil War at a haunted orphanage. Thus for his next feature film, he opted for Spanish history. The project however soured him slightly on doing his work in the limits of Hollywood. It starred Mira Sorvino and Josh Brolin in a story of enormous bugs set loose in New York City.
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Starring Ron Perlman ( a regular collaborator with Del Toro) earned numerous honors which included 8 Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film.Īt the age of 33 in 1997, Guillermo was granted a $30 million budget for a movie Mimic from Miramax Films. The plot was about owner of an antique’s shop who starts to go through a surprising vampiric transformation upon coming across a glided device with his granddaughter witnessing all of it. The first feature debut by Guillermo Del Toro Cronos,came in 1993 which was a Spanish/English film. Formation of his own production company, The Tequila Gang was followed later in his directing career. Del Toro also happened to have co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Studying special effects and makeup with Dick Smith, a special effects artist, Del Toro spent ten years as a special effects makeup designer and in the mid of 80s, he had formed his own company Necropia.
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He also has written four episodes and directed five of the La Hora Marcada, a cult series with Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuaron. He made about 10 short films before his first feature Matilde.
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He had a taste for macabre since an early age and one of his short centered on a serial killer potato which aimed to rule the world, it murdered his brothers and mothers before he left home and met an unfortunate accident with a car resulting in its crushing.ĭel Toro made short films in high school and later on attended film school Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Cinematograficos. At eight years of age, young Del Toro had begun toying with his father’s Super 8 camera and made short films with the toys he had of Planet of the Apes amongst others. Del Toro has been fixated with monsters since forever which according to him are symbols of incredible power.īorn in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 9 1964, Guillermo Del Toro was raised in a strict Catholic household. Work done by Guillermo Del Toro is branded by a solid connection to horror and fairy tales with the added flavor of visual or poetic beauty. Horror exists for the people like Guillermo del Toro. For those who never outgrew their faith and belief that the universe is filled with infinite mysteries and secrets which is a source of terror and fascination both. Horror genre is for those whose sense of fear is more ancient or less ordinary. Although the preoccupations of Hitchcock are bit mature and grown up but just a tinge where all the worries of guilt, sex and the fear of getting punished are all mixed up together and surface clearly in the form of thriller. Guillermo Del Toro happens to fall in the category of those lucky filmmakers like Hitchcock, who came about on such a popular genre which suited his oldest and deepest obsessions – the things which he never forgot about.
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