Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Wood Sprite's introduction in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is just one of the disturbing moments in the stop-motion adaptation film, showing that his children's story will be much darker than the usual genre fare. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is not only one of many movie adaptations of the Italian children's fantasy novel but one of three Pinocchio film adaptations that arrived in 2022.
9 Geppetto Makes Pinocchio Pinocchio Is Created Out Of Grief Close If Geppetto losing his human son at the start of Pinocchio is not frightening enough, his grief-stricken and drunken efforts to create a new child out of wood are even more disturbing. The sequence of the heartbroken elderly man sobbing over his son's grave followed by him grimly deciding to cut down a tree for a new one has more similarities with Frankenstein than it does with any of the previous adaptions.
7 Pinocchio Is Introduced To The Wood Sprite's Sister, Death The Creature Who Rules The Realm Of The Dead Is Unnerving Close After Pinocchio is killed by the truck, his spirit is taken to the land of the dead. He's carried in a coffin by black, skeletal rabbits, who, before they are revealed to be comic relief, are quite unnerving in their silent, blank-eyed procession. They then carry Pinocchio to meet the Wood Sprite's sister: Death.
5 Pinocchio & The Boys Are Trained For War Del Toro's Young Men Learn How To Kill Close In most versions of Pinocchio, the titular puppet is seduced into going to Pleasure Island, where little boys can do all the bad things they dream of, only to realize too late that their real fate is to be turned into donkeys for labor. In Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, the wooden boy is sent to boot camp in the Italian Army.
3 Pinocchio Kills The Terrible Dogfish The Sea Creature Explodes Via Naval Landmine Close Monstro has always been one of the scarier whales in movies, but Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio ratchets the animal's freakiness up a few notches. In this film, Monstro is known as the Terrible Dogfish, which is book-accurate. "Monstro" is a creation of Disney, but both creatures share the same purpose.