pan’s labyrinth
Five Movies Where the Monster isn’t Actually Bad
Monsters go all the way back to the earliest days of horror cinema. Think of pioneering movies like Nosferatu, The Mummy, and King Kong. Those are all very different films, but they have one key eleme...
Dark Fantastic: Seven Movies that Smartly Meld Fantasy and Horror
Every single person has a different definition of exactly what horror is. Some people—I’ve met plenty—claim that movies like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween and Black Chri...
Criterion Blu-Ray Review: Pan’s Labyrinth
Following the Spanish Civil War, a young girl is sent to stay with her Mother’s new husband. When reality becomes too painful for her, she conjures a fantasy world that provides her wi...
Not Quite Horror: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Horror is evolving as a genre. Although your local multiplex is still loaded with the usual contenders, look a bit closer and you’ll find the latest drama, thriller, or crime offering is closer...
Advance Review: Tale of Tales is Beautiful, Bizarre, and Disturbing
Directed by Matteo Garrone, Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti) is a European fantasy-horror film adapted from Giambattista Basile’s seventeenth-century fairy tale collection, the Pentamer...
Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Laybrinth and Why Guillermo del Toro is Fixated on the Spanish Civil War
Different creators are attracted to different things, whether they be ideas or periods in history or even places. Stephen King has written the bulk of his works around the same small New England towns...