Note: This review contains spoilers.
I’m a fan of director Guillermo del Toro. I didn’t really follow his movies attentively until after I saw Hellboy, which was my first exposure to the character and launched several years of intense Hellboy obsession. But before Hellboy, I’d seen two other del Toro films in the theater – Mimic and Blade II. Mimic was a surprisingly entertaining horror film about giant bug-men and earned a lasting place in my memory for a scene in which a pair of annoying kids are ruthlessly butchered by the monsters. Blade II was just a fun horror/superhero film with an interesting design aesthetic.
After Hellboy, I went back and watched del Toro’s smaller, more critically acclaimed films, Cronos and The Devil’s Backbone (side note – I hadn’t seen that cool Mignola cover for the Devil’s Backbone Blu-ray. Neat). Both are atmospheric, creepy films, though the latter film is the first one in which del Toro reveals some of his political and historical interests, which would play an even larger role in his masterpiece, Pan’s Labyrinth. Continue reading “Movie Review > Pacific Rim”
