Guillermo del Toro

Mexican filmmaker and actor. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. Del Toro is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.[

Week	Dates	Film	RT Critic	Theme	One-Line Summary
1	Sep 7-13	Pan’s Labyrinth	95%	Childhood & Imagination	A young girl escapes the horrors of fascist Spain through a dark fairy-tale world.
2	Sep 14-20	The Devil’s Backbone	93%	Childhood & War	An orphan confronts both ghosts and the scars of civil war.
3	Sep 21-27	Pinocchio	96%	Childhood & Fathers	Del Toro transforms the classic tale into a meditation on love, grief, and individuality.
4	Sep 28-Oct 4	Hellboy	81%	The Outsider Monster	A demon raised by humans struggles to choose his own destiny.
5	Oct 5-11	The Shape of Water	92%	The Outsider Monster	A lonely woman falls in love with a creature everyone else fears.
6	Oct 12-18	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	86%	The Outsider Monster	The boundaries between humanity and myth begin to collapse.
7	Oct 19-25	Crimson Peak	72%	Gothic Romance	Love, ghosts, and betrayal haunt a crumbling English mansion.
8	Oct 26-Nov 1	Nightmare Alley	80%	Gothic Noir	An ambitious con man discovers the true cost of reinvention.
9	Nov 2-8	Cronos	92%	Transformation	A mysterious device grants eternal youth while corrupting the soul.
10	Nov 9-15	Mimic	67%	Transformation	Man-made creatures evolve beyond human control beneath New York.
11	Nov 16-22	Blade II	57%	Humanity vs Monstrosity	Blade confronts creatures even more monstrous than vampires.
12	Nov 23-29	Pacific Rim + Early Shorts (Doña Lupe & Geometría)	72%	Humanity vs the Impossible	Humanity unites against extinction while Del Toro’s earliest works reveal the roots of his imagination.