Guillermo Del Toro Getting Some Love On DVD

If anyone knows me well enough, I'm a huge Guillermo Del Toro fan. Anytime a release of one of his films comes out I have to buy it right away. It's a bit of an addiction that I'm proud to have. There's one film of his that I don't have on DVD because the edition that came out previously was of the suckage level. That movie is the little horror cockroach monster movie Mimic.



Thanks to Twitch Film for posting this news up on their site. And yes, I realize the Mimic news is the April Fools joke kind. But down below is the real meat of the matter.


What's pretty exciting is that it's a director's cut of the movie. I remember seeing this film when it came out and liking it (not loving it) but could tell there was a bit more to it. What I find funny is that it's the 12th Anniversary edition (which is almost as funny as The Jerk's 26th Anniversary Edition DVD). It just seems like a weird time to make an anniversary edition, but I'll take it nonetheless. Even more exciting that Del Toro does commentary and there's a making of going through the terrible tale of what went wrong with his first foray in Hollywood film making.

An even more intriguing tidbit of a Del Toro film being re-released on DVD in the fall came in my inbox today from Criterion's update email I get every so often. It had the following picture listed at the end of the email, which for this film geek made my pants a little tighter.



For anyone out there not in the know about his Spanish Language Trilogy, the film Cronos was the first of the three films (the others being The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth). As opposed to the latter two films taking place during the Spanish Civil War, Cronos takes place in Mexico. It was his first feature film and showed right from the get go that he was a force to be reckoned with. So what it looks like in the fall is that we should be expecting a new Special Edition DVD from Criterion, which is a big deal to film aficionados around the world. They tend to put the most work into their DVD releases (but Warner Bros. has stepped up in the last few years with their special editions) and find the coolest special features for their releases. I'll be featuring a best of special features with Criterion in the coming weeks.

So it's an exciting time for Del Toro fans out there. Even with his directing gig right now with The Hobbit (which rumors becoming a trilogy itself), he still takes the time to develop grand editions for his films, no matter how small or how critically panned they might be. He is a film maker and an artist, which he loves to share with his fans and I for one appreciate it. I can't wait for these two DVD releases this year.