Below, we’ve ranked 20 of the filmmaker’s projects from worst to best.
It’s stupefyingly dull.
(Despite directorPeter Jackson’s horror pedigree, the original trilogy never felt this whimsically ghastly.)
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Certainly, it’s not a patch on the original.
It lacks the strong story and emotional core of the first installment, but the ending is a hoot.
My first American experience was almost my last because it was with theWeinsteinsand Miramax.
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I know which one was worse…the kidnapping made more sense.
I knew what they wanted."
Mim-Blecch!, asMadmagazine never called it, essentially boils down to “killer cockroaches take the subway.”
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(The initial seven shorts were “mercifully” lost, according to the director.)
As they quickly take over her apartment and her life Dona Lupe plots her bloody revenge.
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Nightmare Alleyis perhaps del Toro’s most straightforward work.
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(Del Toro also won a much-deserved Academy Award for directing this film.)
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Mira Sorvino in ‘Mimic’.Everett Collection
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Palm Pictures
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Fox Searchlight
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Federico Luppi in ‘Cronos’.Everett Collection
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