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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.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.