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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
The twelfth installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and the third chapter of the Frankenstein story. It's 1941, Doctor Josef Mengele has been sended by the Führer to the town of Celles to supervise the achievements of Doctor Von Frankenstein's secret project. Heinrich Von Frankenstein shows Mengele the discoveries of Victor Frankenstein's diary, as well as the remains of the original Frankenstein's monster and his bride. Disappointed with this, Mengele tells colonel Zimmermann that they have a month before the arrival of general Günter to create the "perfect soldier" that they promised to the Führer or else their funding will be revoked. Due to Zimmermann's insistence, Heinrich decides to revive both monsters and perform scientific experiments on them in search for the elements to create a perfect soldier. Alive once again, the monster sees what Heinrich has done to his bride and gives her a mercy kill, knowing that the monster is enraged and won't listen to him, Heinrich decides to take advantage of a young hunchback in love with Zimmermann's daughter, Ygor Müller, who accepts Heinrich's promise of fixing his back. Frankenstein sees this as the opportunity to use Ygor's body as the working ground in wich to create the perfect soldier. The post credits scene shows Yvonne Von Frankenstein giving birth to a baby boy, him being the last of the Frankenstein.
