Guillermo del Toro is a director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist born in Mexico in 1964. He started filming when he was a teenager and showed his great interest in the seventh art. He was a fan of James Whale's Frankenstein films, monster comics, and Japanese stories like Astro Boy and Godzilla. For the next ten years, he devoted himself to makeup design, formed his own makeup company, and became executive producer of his first film at the age of twenty-one.
This filmmaker has a wide variety of films: comic book adaptations, horror, and fantasy films. His style is unique ashe manages to create gloomy, magical, or fantastic atmospheres through his filmography. When he was a child, he had a dream in which he remembers seeing a Faun and monsters walking around the room. He was so terrified that he made a deal: if they left him alone, he would be friends with them for life. Thus, he dedicated a large part of his career to introducing his new friends in different films, including Pan's Labyrinth, which brought him international recognition.
After receiving several nominations and winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro added new projects to his career. One of them was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, where he stands out as a producer. Based on one of the books of the iconic saga written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Brett Helquist, the film is set in Mill Valley, where the shadow of the Bellows family has expanded for generations. In their mansion on the edge of town, Sarah, a young woman with horrible secrets, turned her torturous life into a series of scary stories written in a book that has transcended time; stories that become very real for a group of teenagers who discover this terrible book.
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