A low-budget, teens-in-peril horror movie from Blumhouse and starring Octavia Spencer? Yes, please, sign me up for your newsletter. I didn’t know this movie existed until yesterday, but this new trailer for Ma puts this on my radar in a big way. Take a look below.
Guillermo del Toro’s latest, The Shape of Water, reminds me of so many of the director’s other films. It
contains lush, gorgeous, fantastic elements that astound, tease the
imagination, and take your breath away. But it also contains flat, bland,
lame-ass choices and needless grandstanding that kills momentum and waters down
the impact of what’s otherwise a lovely love letter to classic movies and
sweeping cinematic romance.
I know everyone clamors for Guillermo del Toro to make more
Hellboy movies, but while they’re fine, I don’t adore them
like many. As a counterpoint, I’d much rather have him doing original films,
like The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth,
and Crimson Peak. And, at least if this first trailer is to
be believed, his latest, The Shape of Water falls into this category.
This is as lovely as it is macabre.
