Cross-media picks for Guillermo del Toro fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
For fans of Guillermo del Toro, these picks orbit the same dark gravity: fairy tales with real teeth, monsters who want to be understood, and beauty that grows in the most unlikely places. Castlevania stalks the same gothic corridors as Dracula; Mama asks what love looks like when the thing doing the loving is monstrous; A Plague Tale: Requiem turns a supernatural plague into something devastating and intimate. Darkness here is never just decoration.
Film
Legend
A timeless mythical forest of fairies, goblins and unicorns conceals genuine menace beneath its fairy-tale beauty.
Film
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
A behind-the-scenes look at del Toro and collaborators breathing new life into the Frankenstein legend.
Film
Harmagedon
An ancient cosmic destroyer of immeasurable power bears down on Earth — only two people are aware of the threat.
Film
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
Dante journeys through all nine circles of Hell searching for love — rendered as visceral animated horror.
Film
Faust
Three artists across three generations are haunted by the demon Mephistopheles in an absurdist Faustian retelling.
Film
Faust: Love of the Damned
An artist sells his soul for revenge and is transformed into a horned demon — every deal with darkness has its price.
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Mama
Two girls raised by a supernatural creature in the woods: a haunting question about what the monster truly feels.
Film
Colossal
A woman discovers that catastrophic real-world disasters are somehow connected to her own mental breakdown.
Series
Frankenstein's Love
An immortal monster fashioned from corpses yearns for humans, collecting what others throw away — lonely and haunting.
Series
M3: The Dark Metal
Children bonded in a dark void reunite years later to fight monsters from that same lightless realm.
Series
Grimms Notes: The Animation
Every life is pre-written in a book of fate — until rogue Story Tellers start rewriting those destinies by force.
Series
Castlevania
A vampire hunter defends a besieged city from Dracula's army of otherworldly beasts — gothic, brutal and gorgeous.
Series
No. 6
In a near-future city of engineered perfection, one boy's act of kindness unravels the nightmare beneath the surface.
Series
Demon Lord Dante
A teenager tormented by demonic nightmares develops a mysterious power — and the visions of violence keep worsening.
Series
Frankenstein
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses — the original monster-creation story, stripped bare.
Series
Genocyber
Corporate armies clash over a weapon combining human and supernatural elements that could tip world power.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven distinct episodes, each a different dark world — ludicrous magical weaponry in an epic fantasy FPS.
Game
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Fresh out of a mental institution, a man finds reality slipping as corporate conspiracy and horror close in.
Game
A Plague Tale: Requiem
A supernatural plague warps a medieval world as two siblings flee their devastated homeland toward an island in prophecy.
Game
Content Warning
Film your friends doing terrifying things to chase internet fame — horror as absurdist dark comedy.
Game
Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994)
A dolphin battles the Vortex — a monstrous enemy that once tore his family from their home waters.
Game
Rogue Lords
Play as the devil himself, bending the game's rules to manage famous evil geniuses through a roguelike underworld.
Game
Creepy Tale 2
A mysterious evil terrorises a forest kingdom by kidnapping children — fairy-tale horror with real menace.
Game
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
At the end of days, a warrior battles the Lords of Shadow while the souls of the dead wander a shattered land.
Book
Trollhunters
A suburban teen's 45-year-old mystery resurfaces, forcing him into alliance with decidedly non-human companions.
Book
Maske
A stratified society on a water-covered world traps one man in conflict with its rigid inherited rules.
Book
Dracula
Count Dracula, cursed and contagious, moves from a Transylvanian castle toward the teeming streets of Victorian London.
Book
Beastkeeper
A girl unravels generations of curses in a crumbling forest castle — only to find the darkest one has claimed her too.
Book
Chainfire
An epic fantasy novel in the *Sword of Truth* series — large-scale dark fantasy with high stakes.
Book
Delia's Heart
A woman crosses borders to protect those she loves, torn between two worlds, neither of them fully safe.
Book
Leviathan
A prince on the run and a girl disguised as a soldier navigate a war between fabricated beasts and fighting machines.
Book
Clockwork planet
Two unlikely allies race to repair the Core Tower in Kyoto before the clockwork city collapses entirely.
Start with the animated series Castlevania — its gothic atmosphere and morally complex monsters make it a natural companion. For films, Mama explores what happens when the creature doing the protecting is itself monstrous, and Legend wraps genuine menace inside fairy-tale beauty.
Yes — Dracula, the original gothic monster novel, is essential. Beastkeeper offers an intimate fairy-tale curse, and Trollhunters (co-written by del Toro) blends suburban life with genuinely dangerous non-human creatures.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow immerses you in a shattered, demon-haunted world at the end of days. A Plague Tale: Requiem combines a supernatural plague with an emotionally devastating sibling story set against a medieval backdrop.