Guillermo del Toro and Creative Freedom

Nick Bundarin
Nov 2 · 5 min read
Photo by Simon Matzinger on Unsplash

October 9 marked the birthday of prolific director/writer (and personal favorite) Guillermo Del Toro. For several decades Del Toro has proven to be one of film’s greatest storytellers and has also proven (with Oscar- and Golden Globe–winning Shape of Water) that genre films need to be taken more seriously. Del Toro weaves tales of the fairy fantastical and Gothic horror with great and unlikely heroes and menacing…

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Nick Bundarin

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Taking myself less seriously one story at a time. Lover of the weird, horrific and the fantastical. A touch of madness is my cherry on top.

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