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The original Halloween plot was pretty simple: a masked psycho offs a bunch of unwitting babysitters in a small town. “It was basically a good, old-fashioned haunted house movie,” director John Carpenter, who co-wrote the screenplay, once said. “There’s something awful in this dark house and these poor people are …

If you think it’s high time that Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined fellow Mexican auteurs Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) in the Oscar winners circle, The Shape of Water just may be the movie to do it. The Academy typically turns up its nose …