Crimson Peak - Guillermo del Toro's return to horror
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I only think the Prestige was better that year, the Departed was definitely an excellent film but it's a story that's been told a lot of times.
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Most of his movies are just directed or produced. His best films are when he actually directs and writes the story -- Pan's Labyrinth is one of them. This movie will be just like Pan's Labyrinth -- an excellent story, beautiful cinematography, and fantastic casting.
Guillermo del Toro filmography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guillermo del Toro filmography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Pan's Labyrinth" deserved best picture, and a half dozen other awards, including best actor for Sergi Lopez (one of the greatest villains in cinema history). Del Toro also produced "The Orphanage" which was a great film. Have no problem with Del Toro doing "Mountains of Madness", just do it right.
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Del Toro was just born to make movies and the man has a masterful grasp on what that entails. He's got that Coen brothers vision of everything that needs to be and his movies never end up failing due to having a scattershot tone like most horror movies fall to nowadays. I think, after watching all of his films, the biggest criticism that I could muster against him is that the movies that he writes or produces tend to have the feeling of a Del Toro movie but the director pulls back the intensity so it ends up feeling flawed, it never gets to that Pan's Labyrinth level. If the dude never gets his 120+ mil to make Mountains of Madness he needs to sign on with HBO or Showtime and do a Del Toro version of The Dark Tower. Really looking forward to this movie, thanks for the trailer.
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Have you not seen Attack the Block?
Theres the werewolf movies. A good number really. from 80-2010's. Varying level of budgets.
A number of vampire movies too.
Shaun of the dead, worlds end, etc obviously too.
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Del toro does fantasy better then horror.
Now, this can be done well. And he often does do it well.
Its a fine line between what he does, and what Burton does, and ends up with Sleepy hollow.
Del toro manages to make the supernatural feel alien still. Which is good. Its required to make them scary. and he does it, while showing you them. A magical unseen world.
Look at Mama, which he just produced. Pretty good, until the end, where the CGI take over and the ghost is humanized. Particularly when the ghost "wins", and what should be utterly horrific, is kindof undermined.
Its largely why japanese ghost stories are so much better lately. the ghost/horror culture has not been Americanized by years of poltergheist, freddy/jason, house on haunted hills, etc. Japanese ghosts are still utterly alien to American audiences and totally evil. American ghosts can be appeased, and often even reasoned with. we have guardian spirits and innocent spirits. Japanese do not. all ghosts are bad, even children. They must be cleansed, not appeased.
Now, this can be done well. And he often does do it well.
Its a fine line between what he does, and what Burton does, and ends up with Sleepy hollow.
Del toro manages to make the supernatural feel alien still. Which is good. Its required to make them scary. and he does it, while showing you them. A magical unseen world.
Look at Mama, which he just produced. Pretty good, until the end, where the CGI take over and the ghost is humanized. Particularly when the ghost "wins", and what should be utterly horrific, is kindof undermined.
Its largely why japanese ghost stories are so much better lately. the ghost/horror culture has not been Americanized by years of poltergheist, freddy/jason, house on haunted hills, etc. Japanese ghosts are still utterly alien to American audiences and totally evil. American ghosts can be appeased, and often even reasoned with. we have guardian spirits and innocent spirits. Japanese do not. all ghosts are bad, even children. They must be cleansed, not appeased.
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attack the block, shaun of the dead and and world's end are scifi comedies or horror comedies at best. yeah 30 years ago they made good Brit horror movies set in modern times, but they dont anymore. its like hollywood decided that americans think the brits never left the victorian era or something. there are some exceptions like 28 days later. still, that was 13 years ago.
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The departed was a lesser retelling of the Korean movie internal affairs with a dash of whitey bulger thrown in. meh
If that were to ever happen it would be the greatest thing since the GoT tv series. /splooge
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why in gods name would you want such great writer/director to do a piece of shit like that?
we have Justice league dark, mountains of madness, Pacific rim 2/3, Hellboy 3, Silent hill. any other number of original things, etc, and you want him to do a King novel?
we have Justice league dark, mountains of madness, Pacific rim 2/3, Hellboy 3, Silent hill. any other number of original things, etc, and you want him to do a King novel?