PAN'S LABYRINTH

Let's talk about one of the best monster (war) flicks out there. It's weird. It's creepy. It's sad. It's also kinda sweet.

Movie Details:

Origin: Spain, Mexico

Release date: January 19, 2007 (U.S.)

Run time: 1 Hr 58 Min

Director: Guillermo Del Toro (Shape of Water, Pinocchio)

Written by: Guillermo Del Toro

Producer: Belen Atienza and Guillermo Del Toro (among others)

Music by: Javier Navarrete (Wrath of the Titans)

Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro (Pacific Rim, I am Number Four)

Editing: Bernat Vilaplana (Society of the Snow, A Monster Calls, The Impossible)

Actors: Ivana Baquero as Ofelia, Ariadna Gil as Carmen, Sergi Lopez as Vidal, Maribel Verdu as Mercedes and Doug Jones as Fauno / Pale Man

Genre: Coming-of-age, Fantasy (dark), Period drama, War

Rating and why: R for language and violence

Film location: Many areas of Spain

Budget: 19M

Box office: 83.9M worldwide, 569K opening weekend (US & Canada), 37.6M gross (US & Canada)

Awards: Oscar Winner: Writing (Original Screenplay), Cinematography, Art Direction & Makeup. Oscar Nominee: Original Score & Foreign Language Film of the Year.

Timeframe: 1944 WWII and Post Spanish Civil War

Setting: Spain mountains/forests

Synopsis: Lost Princess must find her way back to her magical kingdom… 

Tagline: What happens when make-believe believes it’s real?

Watch on: Tubi and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb - 8.2 (711K) #146

Letterboxd - 4.2 (54K)

Rotten Tomatoes - 95% critic (244), 91% audience (250K+)

Metacritic metascore - 98 (37 critics) ”Must-See”, 8.7 (1,700 users)

Critic consensus (RT) - Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable

Our Ratings:

Dylan - 4.2/5

Jesse - 3.8/5

Dawson - 3.3/5