If there was ever a match made in heaven, it was Guillermo del Toro and Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion.” Del Toro is a monster kid through and through.
His fascination with the macabre has deep literary and cinematic roots, to be sure.
He can break down the gothic artistry of Mary Shelley’s writing or grapple with the problematic side of H.P.
Lovecraft with as much intelligence and passion as the most respected college professor.But del Toro’s passion for genre goes way beyond the intellectual.
It’s his whole heart, which you can see in everything he’s ever produced.
He has a childlike love of ghosts and monsters and anything spooky, so of course he was the right person for Disney to hire to try to make a real version of “The Haunted Mansion” back in 2010.His particular adaptation had a long history of stops and starts before he eventually departed the project,…
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