In Guillermo del Toro's darker, weirder 'Pinocchio,' it's Geppetto learning the lessons

Growing up in Guadalajara, Guillermo del Toro had two Sunday rituals — church and movies. The day began with Mass at 8, where Del Toro learned about creeds and saints and the strict rules dictating order and obedience. After breakfast, Del Toro's parents would drop him at a small theater three blocks from home where he'd absorb a more morally ambiguous world filled with, on any given Sunday, vampires and monsters and an ape man swinging through the jungle.

"Parents wouldn't stay, which was very auspicious for 'Tarzan and His Mate,'" Del Toro says of the 1934 film that starred Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan wearing what was then considered a revealing loincloth. "All the kids around the age