Guillermo del Toro recently spoke at the Cannes Film Festival and informed some details about his upcoming film FrankensteinPage on Netflix, later published this year. As reported by diversityHe said he was asked whether his film would have “really scary scenes”. This prompted the director, who was awarded the Oscar, to think about how people would get the film: “I thought about it for the first time. It is an emotional story for me. It's as personal as everything else. I ask a question of how I am a father, a son … I don't try a horror film and not.” I don't try that. “
It can be confusing to literally hear a man with stories and producers -credits in a film To tell frightening stories in the dark (Adapted from the excellent book of the same name) they say that he “does not try” to make horror, this way of thinking is aimed at most of his career.
Del Toros early films like Cronos And The backbone of the devilcan certainly be classified as horror. While his later films show terrifying elements, they break off from conventional horror and lean more about Gothic fantasies and dark fairy tales. I was as scared as everyone else The pale man in Pan's labyrinthMaybe his most famous film, but that doesn't make it a horror film. It is more of a imagination and a parable that examines the realities of the war through the eyes and imaginative new interpretations of a young girl.
Although Crimson Peak Talks a ghost story, it shows romance at its core. And The shape of the water Focus on on romance and tells a story that focuses on hugging others. With one ending in which the protagonist Elisa (Sally Hawkins) becomes a mythical creature, it is more of a fairy tale than a horror film.
This emphasizes with the Ostracized is the core of the work of del Toro, whether his Elisa and the fairytale love story of the amphibian or the persecution of Normality of Hellboy in del Toros Adaption by Mike Mignolas Comics. “When I thought for the first time I would avenge the creature, Marilyn Monroe was out [of 1954’s The Creature from the Black Lagoon] In The seven -year -old itching With Tom Ewell, and she says the creature only needed someone who likes him, “said Del Toro in Cannes.” I fell in love with Marilyn and fell in love with the creature in this scene at a very young age. And I thought, everything we have, are people who look wrong. “We have that in this world.”
Don't expect Frankenstein be different. “[F]Or I, it's an incredibly emotional film, ”said del Toro. With the focus on the parental relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Frankenstein Sounds similar to Del Toro's last film, The Stop Motion Pinocchio. “[Geppetto] Asked almost like in a horror story: “I want my child back.” And the child comes back in a way that does not recognize, ”del Toro told Polygon Pinocchio In 2022. Now that is What would I look at a horror story.
