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[Video] Guillermo del Toro Celebrates Monsters in Beautiful Golden Globes Speech
“I thank you. My monsters thank you.”
Nabbing his very first Golden Globe for Best Director last night, Guillermo del Toro was put in a pretty unenviable position: he had to directly follow Oprah Winfrey, who had just delivered a rousing speech on the current state of Hollywood and society at large. Choking back his own tears, Del Toro himself made us cry some more with his speech.
“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters,” Del Toro began his acceptance speech for the trophy, of course given to him for last year’s The Shape of Water. “I have been saved and absolved by them. Monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection.”
He continued, “For 25 years, I have hand-crafted very strange little tales… in three precise instances, these strange stories have saved my life – once with The Devil’s Backbone, once with Pan’s Labyrinth, and now with The Shape of Water. As directors, these things are not just entries in a filmography. We have made a deal with a particularly inefficient devil, that trades three years of our life for one entry on IMDb. And these things are biography. And they are life.”
“Somewhere, Lon Chaney is smiling on all of us,” he ended the speech.
The Shape of Water also took home the Best Original Score for a Motion Picture trophy.
Publisher Merge Games and developer Still Running have announced a release date bump of May 17 for their horrorpunk action-adventure title Morbid: The Lords of Ire. The follow-up to the 2020 Lovecraftian RPG Morbid: The Seven Acolytes was originally set to release on May 23 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, the Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.
Accompanying the release date change is a new trailer, as well as news that Morbid: The Lords of Ire will be getting support for Xbox One, allowing last-gen players to get in on the fun. The game will also see a physical edition heading to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, with pre-orders available now.
Morbid: The Lords of Ire invites players to risk madness venturing through a revolting hell as the Striver of Dibrom. You must fight across tortured landscapes in an all-new 3D perspective in order to defeat the returning five Lords of Ire, slaughtering hideous creatures using a range of vicious weapons, equipment and blessings.
How you approach combat in Morbid: The Lords of Ire can have a dramatic impact on the world around you. The Lords of Ire builds upon the sanity system from Morbid: The Seven Acolytes, whereby succumbing to insanity can grant incredible power, but at great personal risk, and will dynamically change how you perceive the world around you.
The demo for The Lords if Ire is still available on PlayStation and Steam.
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