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When it comes to the monsters in the movies Del toro gets very personal. There are many different ways in how he creates the monsters in his movies. A lot of the monsters come from childhood memories and experiences. In order to come up with how monsters should look he converts their role to attributes of things, such as insects, in real life. The creation of every monster depends on him and how he feels that they should look. In his movies every character is done differently and individually. He likes to give them different personalities. For example even the fairies even though they have the same base they still all look different. All of his monsters are protagonists.
There is a faun in the movie that comes directly from him. He said that he wanted a neutral guide for the girl in the movie. He wanted someone that she could not trust, and as the faun got younger he became less trustworthy. When he was young he had lucid dreams that at midnight in only his grandmother's room, a faun would come out from behind her amour. He said that that is where he gets the idea for the faun in the movie.
He converts the role of monsters in the movie to attributes of animals in real life. For example he said that he always felt that an archangel should look like an insect that was armored. The pale man sitting at the table in the movie is derived from the disturbing underbelly of a manta ray. He said originally it was an old fat man the had lost a lot of weight which gave him the excess skin. This shows that the monster had not eaten in a long time. He also said that the monster had stigma and that he remembers as a child they would always draw a hand and then some eyes or a mouth. That is what gave him the idea to put the eyes in the monsters hands and not on his face.
In most horror movies the monsters are the bad guys. But Del toro put the picture in a new frame. He decided to reverse that effect and that made his movies unique. He treated his monsters as if they were real people with real thoughts. In “The Devil's backbone” Sante was a ghost. Although he was out for revenge he helped the boys in the movie. That is like the the guide for the girl in “Pans Labyrinth” he was bad but also a big help for the girl. Although there were some bad monsters in his movie “Pans Labyrinth”.
Del toro treats the creation of monsters in his movies fairly differently than others. Most of his monsters come from child hood memories or dreams. He converts the role of the monsters to attributes of real life animals, then he molds it together to get the effect that he wants. Lastly he creates most of his monsters to help the main character. His monsters are mostly goo guys.