Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico’

Why is the Oscar-winning director giving up monsters in his latest flick? From the haunting Pan’s Labyrinth to The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro is this century’s leading fantasy film-maker. To celebrate the release of his new film, Nightmare Alley, Ryan Gilbey interviews the director about the horrors of his childhood and why is he abandoning his cinematic world of trademark beasts for something more gritty.