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2001-2019FOLLOW US ONAbout UsContact UsPrivacy Policy ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE ADGuillermo del Toro’s Films Ranked From Best to Most AwesomeAs ‘Crimson Peak’ releases we rank Guillermo del

celebration as Crimson Peak releases this week. But if you aren’t up tospeed with who del Toro is and what his best films are, we’ve ranked them inascending order below. Yes, with del Toro,

they just go from best to most awesome.

At a time when Michael Bay is thoroughly destroying our childhoodmemories with the horrendous Transformersmovies, it took a special kind of filmmaker like Del Toro to restore

nostalgicmemories. This is a film about giant robots punching the crap out of giantmonsters, but it’s done with such style and love for both elements, your innerchild can’t help but pump

fist a few times. Unlike Hollywood’s recent fare, theaction in the film moved slow, and it’s one of the few action films of the pastdecade that had fun characters and the ability to form a

geek club. It’s alsogot some of the most crowd pleasing sequences in recent times, like a RocketPunch

and a ship doubling as abaseball bat

Batman and Superman became all too saturated in pop culture, andMarvel’s Hulk films weren’t exactly setting the box office registers ringing. Theworld needed a different superhero, who

wasn’t either a dark brooding tragedyor a godlike entity. Hellboy, much like del Toro himself delivered genuine witand off kilter comedy seldom seen in superhero cinema – and it had gorgeous

bigscale set pieces with surreal imagery never before seen in the genre. As abonus it was also genuinely scary in parts. It’s a tragedy that audienceswanted dumber superhero movies and a

third Hellboy movie was canned due tounderwhelming return on investment. Those who enjoyed the self-aware blackhumour of Guardians of the Galaxywould be surprised to know that Del Toro’s

Hellboymovies got there first.

How does one reinvent the Vampire genre when there have already beendozens of films and TV shows based on the legend? Ask del Toro, who with hisfirst feature film demonstrated that he has a

unique voice on familiar stories.This was the first time a film relayed the tragedy of someone becoming avampire, and the effects it could have on the people surrounding him. Themysterious

golden scarab that causes vampirism in the film was the first signof del Toro bringing gothic objects and imagery into cinema.

The film that really brought del Toro into international limelight, Pan’s Labyrinth set a new standard forcinema loaded with metaphors. It’s a gorgeous little fairy tale, with anundercurrent

of a horrifying reality. It was beautiful but it wasn’t eye candy,it was eye protein. The monsters seen in the film are terrifying but also fascinating.The villainous Army captain in the

film is far scarier than the otherworldlycreatures of the story. And the music is to die for.

Anyone who ranks Pan’sLabyrinth as del Toro’s best film hasn’t seen The Devil’s Backbone. Much like Labyrinth, it balances a spookyghost story with political message and a gentle takedown of

the situationduring the Spanish civil war. It’s not often that we see a film where thehorror elements are used as a backdrop for a larger, much more complex story. Theis also one of the

very rare films where the frights don’t pop out as jumpscares but are slow, atmospheric, truly creepy buildups. And even in the ghoulishhorror of the ghost’s face there is a strand of

tragedy you can’t look awayfrom. If you’re looking for the best film about Del Toro’s love for macabredesign, fairy tale infused with horror, social message and politics andtremendous music,

it is this film.

(Mihir Fadnavis is not only a film critic and journalist but also a certified film geek who has consumed more movies than meals.)

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