Del Toro let everyone know the rating news for The Shape of Water via his Twitter today, and he seems fine with it.
Hopefully, advertising for The Shape of Water will go a little better, so moviegoers won’t go in expecting the kind of story that del Toro has said over and over again he doesn’t tell.
He also wants to clarify one more time that The Shape of Water is not horror. Like Pan’s Labyrinth, it’s “a bit of a fairy tale,” with maybe a few scary elements thrown in.
Guillermo del Toro is known for toeing the line between simply weird and out-and-out frightening.