Museum Exhibit Revists Guillermo del Toro’s Most Terrifying Monsters

Journey into the dark and fantastical world of the ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ director.

Thomas Freeman

Oct 3, 2016

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has dedicated a portion of its museum to Guillermo del Toro, recreating some of the fantasy-horror director’s most macabre and fantastical boogeymen.

The “At Home with Monsters” exhibit displays replicas of the orphan ghost from The Devil’s Backbone, the Faun and child-eating Pale Man from his Spanish-language masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth, and the pint-sized—albeit terrifying—tooth fairy from Hellboy, among others.

Guillermo del Toro has reinvented the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Working with a team of artists and actors, del Toro re-creates the lucid dreams he experienced as a child in Guadalajara. “DDT Efectos Especiales” by Montse Ribe depicts the ghost of Santi from del Toro’s film “The Devil's Backbone” in lifelike realism. [Installation photograph, “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” August 1–November 27, 2016, photo © Joshua White / JWPictures.com] #lacma #GDTatLACMA #GDTHalloween #GuillermodelToro #AtHomeWithMonsters

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The replicas are arranged alongside del Toro’s personal sketches, notes, and paintings as well as artifacts and maquettes from his most-loved (and feared) films.

#AtHomeWithMonsters de @RealGDT en @LACMA 🎬

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The “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters” exhibition will conclude on November 27.