As should be clear by now, monsters are anything but monstrous to Guillermo del Toro, whose Venice hit The Shape of Water from Fox Searchlight portrays the surreal love affair between mute ...

Think how absurd it must have been for Fox Searchlight Pictures to hear monster Guillermo del Toro’s pitch: at a top secret government research lab during The Cold War, a lonely, mute janitor falls in ...

So, while there are monsters hiding in plain sight in some other Oscar-nominated films this year — Nazis in “The Darkest Hour,” accepting parents with a dark secret in “Get Out” and an unseen rapist ...