With “Crimson Peak” arriving in theaters shortly from the ever-imaginative Guillermo del Toro, his other films have been circulating the screens and minds of cinephiles alike. “Hellboy,” “Cronos,” and “Mimic” put del Toro on the map, but it was his 2006 anti-fairy tale “Pan’s Labyrinth” that catapulted the innovator the most critical acclaim. Creating a universe amidst the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (his second film with this setting, the other being “The Devil’s Backbone”) del Toro explores the real-life and fantasy worlds of young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero).
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Ofelia travels with her ailing pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, the tyrannic Captain Vidal, whose purpose is to destroy rebels and support a Francoist regime. Ofelia is lured by what she believes to be a fairy into the forest, and here she meets a faun, culminating the introduction to the labyrinth, mythical creatures,...
