Tour Guillermo del Toro's Horror-Themed Home with Andy Richter
Guillermo del Toro is happy to live with his nightmares. The Mexican director, best known for frightening fantasy films like Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and last year’s Crimson Peak, keeps an astonishing collection of horror-themed art and memorabilia in his suburban Los Angeles Tudor house. On TBS’s Conan this week, Andy Richter took a tour into the dark heart of del Toro’s unassuming home, which the director has nicknamed “Bleak House.” Watch the video above.
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A self-proclaimed “Disney freak,” del Toro has designed his living space like a kind of personal Disneyland for his slightly warped inner child. The rooms have themes, including “fantasy and children’s stories” and “vampires and werewolves.” A hidden door in a bookcase reveals a room dedicated to Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride. (del Toro has long been attached to a potential Haunted Mansion movie, at one point with Ryan Gosling as his star.) Medical oddities share space with props and models from films, including robots from del Toro’s own Pacific Rim and guns from his Hellboy franchise.
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Most striking of all are the life-sized, painstakingly realistic mannequins of del Toro heroes like Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Harryhausen, along with fictional characters like the cast of 1932’s Freaks and Linda Blair’s possessed child from The Exorcist (who sits on a recliner and watches television with the director). As Richter observes, “This would be a terrible house to be drunk in.”
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