Newish spin on old horror standards
6/10
The Orphanage, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona in his debut feature, is a worthy genre movie that combines elements of numerous psychological horror films from The Others and The Sixth Sense to The Shining. Notably produced by Guillermo Del Toro, who is credited with invigorating Spanish horror with films such [...]
The Orphanage - Juan Antonio Bayona
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Film
Tags:Alejandro Amenabar·Andres Gertrudix·Belén Rueda·Carmen Lopez·Fairytale·Fernando Cayo·Geraldine Chaplin·Guillermo Del Toro·haunted house·HIV·Juan Antonio Bayona·M Night Shyamalan·Peter Pan·pyschological horror·Victorian
Pan’s Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro
December 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Film
The Chronicles of Oz in Wonderland
7/10
Guillermo Del Toro’s dark fairtytale was one of the most acclaimed films of 2006 - Alice In Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz brutally reimagined in Civil War Spain. 12-year-old Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen, have just moved into an abandoned mill with Ofelia’s cruel stepfather Vidal, an army [...]
Tags:Body horror·David Cronenberg·Doug Jones·Fairytale·Franco·Guillermo Del Toro·Ivana Baquero·Sergi López·Spanish Civil War