Mexican Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro: These Are His Best Movies

Guillermo del Toro was born on October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The very talented filmmaker started to build his fantastic directing career in the mid 1980's and has always delighted us with his very peculiar film style which usually involves interactions between humans and creatures or monsters

Guillermo del Toro's first feature film is the 1993 movie Cronos, starring Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman. The film revolves around an antique dealer who stumbles across a 400-year-old scarab that grants him eternal life. It was selected as the Mexican entry for the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee

In 1997 Guillermo del Toro released Mimic. The sci-fi thriller, which featured actor Norman Reedus in his film debut, tells the story of an entomologist who invents a mutant insect to kill disease-bearing cockroaches...

The gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone is certainly one of the best Guillermo del Toro movies! Released in 2001 and set in the final year of the Spanish Civil War, it revolves around a 10-year old kid who, after losing his father, arrives at a school that shelters orphans

Blade II /(2002), the story of the vampire community that comes after a rare mutation was directed by the fabulous Guillermo del Toro. It is the sequel film to Blade, released in 1998 and directed by Stephen Norrington

The 2004 superhero film Hellboy, as well as its 2008 sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, were directed by Guillermo del Toro. Based on Dark Horse Comics graphic novel, the film features an amazing cast consisting of Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and Jeffrey Tambor. In case you need a quick refresher, the film tells the story of a demonic beast-turned superhero, who secretly works to keep the universe safe from paranormal threats...

Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth was a big success. The Spanish-Mexican fantasy drama tells the story of "Ofelia" (Ivana Baquero), who after moving with her mother to her stepfather's house, meets a faun who informs her she is a princess and somehow must prove her royalty. Pan's Labyrinth got two Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay

Later on, in 2013, Pacific Rim was released. This time Guillermo del Toro depicted a world in which sea monsters have emerged from an interdimensional portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam are some of the cast members of the sci-fi film!

Did you know that in 2013 Guillermo del Toro also directed the opening sequence of one episode of The Simpsons? In the "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" he created a mash-up of some of the classic horror and science-fiction movies, including his own films Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim, as well as Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and Elliot Silverstein's The Car

2015 was also quite a successful year for Guillermo del Toro after releasing Crimson Peak. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain, the movie is set in the Victorian era in England, and follows the life of an aspiring author who after traveling to a remote Gothic mansion, must solve the mystery surrounding a series of ghostly visions that haunt the home...