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Probably the most satisfying death of a villain I've ever seen in a movie. "He won't even know your name." Wow!
As creepy as that food monster is, you gotta agree, he has great hand-eye coordination 😂😂😂
Eye Eye, you gotta hand it to him.
😂😂😂
"It might not be scary."
Well. . .
I'm a 35 year old man. This movie is so sad it never fails to make me cry. Guillermo makes some beautiful movies. And he brings them to life exquisitely.
Would you do whatever it took to be a real princess in Spain during the time of Fascism? Would you want to be a Fascist princess? Can you make it through Pan's Labyrinth? In children's stories they always mess up. Some come to good ends regardless of all their mistakes and some come to bad ends because of their mistakes, but all children make mistakes.
The faun is the step-father wanting the son. She chooses the son and goes to the place of paradise in the usual way, which is death. But if you value the son that is the key. She could have been a princess on this Earth, but the god of this Earth is Allah and thus not a win. Choose Yahweh and live forever. It may be more real than this world which passes away. Heaven and Earth shall come to pass away.
My Words shall come to pass.
It's one of my all-time favorites. A fairy tale for adults. The ending makes me want to smile and cry at the same time.
Same here!
Apparently there are 3 hints scattered throughout the movie that kinda hint that the story actually happened. See the one i know below:
1. Ophelia was able to enter the office through the magic door. Which was the only option, since the normal door was locked. Also nice detail, the office looks kike the inside of a watch
"For Adults" only in the modern sense. The Original Grimm's Fairy Tales are very much for children and just as brutal. I would just call this a traditional style fairy tale.
I just cry. This may be the most devastating movie experience I've ever had. I suppose it depends how you interpret the ending.
@@TheDrag0nSlayer Right? Remember how much foot-mutilation went on in the original Cinderella?
The Faun and the Pale Man (the one with the eyes) were both played by Doug Jones, who usually plays characters under heavy makeup for DelToro. He also does this as a major character in Star Trek: Discovery
This movie is so brutal. Shows the darker side of humanity for sure. You handled it way better than I had anticipated. Even I shed a tear for Ofelia in that end scene, while Mercedes is craning over her sobbing.
Nobody expects this movie to go as hard as it does with the brutality and the despair. Truly one of the great movies to come out of the 2000's.
Yeah, the brutality, that one moment, just shook, did not believing was actually seeing that.
I agree, this movie is intense, and you handled it VERY well.
About brutality... The context is the Spanish far right dictatorship after a coup and civil war.
Regardless of how you interpret the ending, she still returns to a dead world, devoid of humanity - her world is even shown in the beginning of the film, it looks like Hades; that's why the director has even indicated that suuure, the faun is prolly real, whatevs - because whatevs - she dies either way, and goes to an unbearable place where she can "only dream of being human"
My interpretation is that both the real world and the fantasy world endings happened. It took her death in the real world to allow her to return to the fantasy world to rule for centuries.
Also, if the fantasy part wouldnt be real, then how did she got out of the locked room to steal the brother?
The creator of the film said that there must have been magic, because otherwise some things (like getting out of the locked room surrounded by guards) would have been impossible.
Now retired, I was a Spanish Teacher for decades. I showed a rotation of Spanish-language films in class, or for extra credit, to mixed levels from 1st through 4th year students, and this was among them. I generally used the Spanish audio tracks with English subtitles going to accommodate for the beginner students. As an undergraduate, I spent time abroad in Spain studying the Spanish Civil War, the era when this film is set, and this is a brilliant portrayal of the IRL events of that era.
You might also like The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). I won't spoil the "who", or why this film is significant, but you'll be impressed with the filmmaking above all.
Seriously, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) is one of my favorite movies of all time, it's an Oscar winning film, and the cinematography is absolutely stunning!
Fun fact: Doug Jones, who played the Faun, did not speak Spanish. His dialogue was voice dubbed later, but he still had to learn all his lines, in Spanish, and speak them while also doing the physical performance.
Also, people do get upset at Ofelia for the two lousy grapes; and yes, she should have left them alone; what is subtle and easy to miss, however, is-- not only that there seems to be an enchantment on the food, such that Ofelia was in a semi-trance and not wholly responsible for her actions, but-- she was also under punishment for dirtying her pretty new dress, and _hadn't eaten since the day before._
(--it's a shame she didn't take the eyes instead, and destroy them after she got back safe.)
Yes, the ending is deliberately left open for the viewer to decide for themself whether the magic was real or all in her head.
This is my only real complaint actually and I just don't buy the excuses. That she would have been sooo hungry because she hadn't eaten dinner that particular day. Nonsense. I've been ten years old myself once upon a time and it happened that you were out playing with friends all day long and missed all the meals of the day without thinking twice about it. So that "argument" doesn't hold up at all. The other explanation is that the table of food would have had some sort of hypnotic effect on Ofelia. That she was drawn to it like a siren's song. But in that case, this was not at all well realized. As I saw it, she was "movie dumb" for the sole reason that she "needed" to screw up and get the monster after her.
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Fair enough; and I don’t mean to imply she couldn’t have helped herself- I don’t suppose there would have been any point in the Faun warning her, if there was nothing she could have done.
All the same… I still feel that the two factors together do somewhat mitigate the offense- partially- although they do not by any means clear her of all blame and responsibility.
Meh, she's a kid. Kids do dumb stuff all the time.
@@KJM1984 As a very active kid, there was never a time where I missed every meal of the day and wasn't starving. Just because that was _your_ experience doesn't mean that had to have been Ofelia's experience.
@@Crazy_Diamond_75 Plenty of kids can go a whole day without food. Maybe it's different in the USA. But remember, she is a kid in 1940s Spain. 1940s WAR-THORN Spain. One day without food should really be no problem for her.
And besides, I just don't buy that anyone could be that dumb in that situation. Not someone her age, because she is actually suppose to be around ten and not five years old, and who both up until then and after this is shown to be as clever as she is. This just doesn't fit with her character.
As I said, this is my only real complaint and I get it, as part if the story she needed to screw up and have the monster chase her. Doesn't change the fact that this just wasn't execuded in the most sensible way though.
One of Guillermo del Toro's best!
Del Toro was offered a big budget by a major studio for this film, on condition that he shoot it in English but he turned it down and had to finance it independently instead, because he wanted to preserve the authenticity; a film set in 1940s Spain should be in Spanish.
Can we talk about the score? The music itself is absolutely phenomenal. So beautiful and haunting. The main theme makes me want to cry!
People rightfully praise Andy Serkis' work all the time. Doug Jones is right up there. He's a phenomenal actor.
Winner of 3 Oscars:
Best Makeup
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design.
It's buffling how it didn't won Best Foreign (over that forgettable Lives Of Others).
And received a standing ovation at Cannes that lasted over a half hour
@@Cotsos88baffling and I agree with you. What was that other movie? Anyone remember it now? Never met a single family member or friend whos seen the others.
the lives of others is very good. IMHO. starts a little low budget but that falls away if you get into it.
IMHO tloo is important as it should remind older viewers of a time before the internet, cctv and the errosion of our privacy that has insidiously crept up on us over the last 3 decades. This level surveillance is something we condemed back then and we pitied the populations of authoritarian communist regimes who suffered under it. The cold War made this contrast in freedoms and privacy very real. It amazes me how people are so casual and diffident to this creep into a digital surveillance culture, particularly older people who experienced this contrast.
Incredible movie. Beautiful yet heartbreaking at the same time
Love del toro’s ending for this and many others of his….. you can see one perspective where she died and it’s so sad… or the other where she finally returned to her kingdom. Such a great movie ❤❤❤
This movie has a companion movie by the same director, Guillermo Del Toro, called The Devil's Backbone (El Spinazo Del Diablo), also set during the Spanish Civil War.
The Devil's Backbone, is Guillermo's 2nd best movie. It is heartbreaking.
Guillermo del Toro directed some great movies. After this one, my favorite is The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
31:14 i think we both know it's nicer to choose Ofelia's POV. She escaped her fascist step-father and returned to her throne as a princess.
there's a lot of allegories to the Spanish Civil War where the step father represents Franco.. the fascist regime. Ofelia represents the Spanish nation and the martyrs who fought and died for the republican cause (Mercedes and Co.) and Ofelia's brother represents New Spain. The new Spain after the war, emerging as a child/or saviour of the nation.
it's a beautiful story and allegory, but i still choose Ofelia's POV. ❤
1939-1944 there were an estimated 200,000 deaths directly or indirectly from starvation. I am sure that the second trial was a metaphor for that. Heartbreaking.
@@Crazy_Diamond_75 yeah, there's an immense breakdown you can find where it goes does to every single situation that happened in Ofelia's world correlating to the war. i've been meaning to read it for a while now b/c i know it includes all the trials/monsters etc. but yes, the "do not eat" trial does sound right.. with the monster being a allegory of both the step dad/Franco punishing those just trying to survive. and yeah, it's extremely sad.. and i wish more knew about some of the main points that occurred in Spain during that time.
also, idk if you'd know this.. but is Picasso's most famed painting the Guernica, dedicated to that moment? i grew up with a father obsessed w/ Picasso so i had the honor of seeing it IRL and it was FRIGHTENING.. even being around 7, 8 seeing it.
@@HaraQuinn I have no idea--I'm not much of an art historian unfortunately. Definitely something to look into!
@@HaraQuinn The Guernica is representing the bombing of that city in the basque region in Spain by the Nazis asked to do it so to hitler (the bombing not the painting) by francisco franco, the Spanish dictator.
@@Dadordemiel OMG you are so right! i did know that! didn't Picasso get really offended by the request, which is why he created such a frightening depiction? i have a small memory of something like that about how he was TOLD to do certain art, which highly offended him.
This movie is a trip. Doug Jones is one of the best ever. And Ivana Baquero was a fantastic young actress for this.
Pan's Labyrinth is a fantastic film. And you're right... an absolute masterpiece with amazing performances all throughout. Ivana Baquero (Ofelia) was brilliant. She also played Eretria in The Shannara Chronicles. I was three episodes in before I realized she was the same actress who played Ofelia.
This is such an eerily beautiful movie, that definitely deserves all of the praise it has received.
I have watched this film many times, introducing it to my wife and child (When she was old enough) and I cry every time Ophelia is shot. The actors are great and the Captain crafted his charcter so well that I'd kill him with my bare hands given a chance. Good reaction Addie as always.
Neil Gaiman said it best "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
@@mikegandalf A very sensitive and intelligent reply sir. Thank you * Smiles *
There are few characters I hate more than I hate the Captain.
love this movie. i remember when it first came out, movie rental stores were still a thing and they plastered a huge sign by this movie to warn everyone that it is NOT a kids movie haha
Del Toro is one of my favorite filmmakers. Love this, Shape of Water, Pacific Rim and both of his Hellboy movies.
My dad lived through Franco in Spain and after watching this movie I finally understood some of him. The whole thing is a metaphor.
Some of the best acting I've ever seen, from everybody.
I don't comment often, but let me tell you a little story. The only time I've done an in-theater double feature was Pan's Labyrinth, and then I drove across town to watch The Fountain. I live in Birmingham, AL, and they were both shown solely in different cinemas. You want to talk about being emotionally wrung out? That was an emotional one-two that left me sitting in my car for at least half an hour. Of course, I own both of them now and have seen them many times. But I messed around and found out that day. Both absolutely brilliant films. But I wasn't exactly ready for what I put myself through.
If you decide to continue on with Guillermo Del Toro’s films like you are with the Coen Brothers, you’re in for a visual treat with each movie. Every movie features fantastical elements and incredible cinematography.
Be warned, del Toro likes eyeballs. It's his signature. Quentin Tarantino likes feet, this guy it's eyes.
My all-time favorite movie. Such a beautiful film. Cemented Guillermo del Toro as my favorite Director.
Maribel Verdú, who plays Mercedes is also Barry Allen´s mother in The Flash.
Captain Vidal is one of the vilest villains in movies ever
When I worked at a tobacconist I once sold a pack of cigarettes to Maribel Verdú, who plays Mercedes in this. She seemed friendly enough.
Beautiful movie. Glad you got to see it 👑
The office of the Captain was locked, so the only way to get in there was the magical chalk door. This is 1 of 3 hints that it was actually real.
phenomenal movie for sure
Another is the flower growing on the dying tree at the end.
@@davidhasselblad3825 Ah yes! keep forgetting them haha.
fun fact, in my local park, there is a tree with a faun face like groth on the back. totally natural. Always reminds me of this movie:)
Del Torro has already said, repeatedly, that while he wrote the underworld to be real, hence the flowers at the end, the story of Ofelia is 100% designed to be left up to the viewer. Neither is right and neither is wrong. Whatever gives you comfort, basically. Either she made the entire movie up in the moment before her death, including the way to his office, the baby root, and the other “clues” you think make it real, or the events actually did happen in reality the way we saw them.
@@zimvader25 to me the office makes it real. She couldn't have gotten in otherwise. and he did chase her etc.
BZZT! WRONG!! It was all in her head. We are seeing it from her perspective; it's the classic "unreliable narrator" scenario. Magic doesn't exist in the real world. This takes place in the real world. Grow up.
I read that the girl who played Ofelia was a student at the local school and was chosen when Del Toro visited. She did an amazing job.
Two other thematically similar Spanish language films are The Devil’s Backbone and The Orphanage. Both are incredible.
I watched this 3 times in theaters and got the dvd soon as it came out. Top 10 movies on my list.
Ivana Baquero who played Ophelia was also Eretria in the Shannara Chronicles. Not a movie, but a series you would enjoy. Recommend watching it.
I'm so glad that you enjoyed this masterpiece, Addie. I own it on DVD and I plan on watching it soon. BTW, I like your new editing style.
Speaking of Guillermo del Toro, who directed this movie, I also suggest the Director's Cuts of Mimic (1997) & Hellboy (2004), as well as Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022). #MoreGuillermoDelToroForAddieCounts
Much like in Stephen King stories, the scariest monsters are the human beings.
Del Toro is really a fa tastic director. So many common themes and elements in this and Hellboy (especially The Golden Army), and The Shape of Water. Great movie and reaction.
I love the ambiguity of the ending. Want it to be true? It can be. In her head? That works too.
i love this movie and i loved your reaction. thank you!! back to crying now.
YES!!!!! An excellent choice!
Try Sling Blade, another excellent, character driven, unforgettable film that did not do huge box office, but was loved and was wonderful, just like this one.
Sling Blade is superb. As is Of Mice and Men with John Lithgow. Bitter sweet classics.
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I was less enthused about Of Mice and Men, since I remember the book so well and generally i tend to much prefer original screenplays like Sling Blade/Pans Lab to historical novel adaptations.
This movie only got a 22 min standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
This is one of those movies that sticks with you - it is engaging, beautiful, ugly, hopeful and tragic at the same time. It's just a great movie!
I remembered that film as excellent, and it was. Thanks for the reminder!
The story takes place after the bloody Spanish civil war, that was an extremely brutal. Both sides (the Franco's fascist and the socialists) committed horrendous atroxities. The aftermath was equally brutal, perhaps, as the winning side (Franco and his fascists) consolidated its's grip on power by brutally crushing any dissidence, that may have been left.
This movie intentionally reflects that almost paranoic atmosphere, where cruelty and brutality was almost normal, mixing with the ability of children finding magic and wonder in the middle of the harshest surroundings possible. Its a dark fantasy film, however, for life itself could and is pretty darn dark, yet extremely beautiful simultaneoussly.
This is a very dark fairy tale with some amazing practical effects the Beasts look so good, but the real monster in this film are the humans namely the Captain.
In Guillermo del Toro movies, the scariest monsters are always the humans. You might also like Shape of Water if you liked this one.
And the 2 original Hellboy movies! Same style, especially with the trollmarket. Love those movies :)
One of my favourite films, so pleased you got to see it.
In the movie it was real. The Captain had the Mandrake in his hand that the Faun gave her and when it died in the fire her mother had major complications. So you have to surmise that at the end the only thing that happened was Ophelia's body died and her spirit went to her father's kingdom. Which in the real world her father had died before and her mother was now dead as well after giving birth to her brother yet they were both there in the kingdom.
Something that makes me feel better for some strange reason is that the captain is played by a comedian, who is apparently a really friendly guy.
"I thought that the fantasy elements and the creatures would be what scared me, but it's not that at all. It's the humans." This is a very common theme in Guillermo Del Toro's work. Another theme that often comes up is Good guys that are disobedient liars, and bad guys who follow the rules and tell the truth.
My theory is that the three monsters represent three aspects of Francoist Spain. #3 was historically an important part of military pronunciamientos. The toad represents the rich, the pale man represents the church, and Vidal represents fascism.
According to a tweet by Guillermo del Toro, the Pale Man represents institutional evil feeding on the helpless, and it is no coincidence that the creature is both pale and male.
It seems like it was set during The Spanish Civil War
it is
Seems like? Lol. It beats you ever the head with it. Do you also think Saving Private Ryan seems like it is about WWII?
No, the Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, when fascist forces under Franco defeated the loyalists, this is set in 1944. Because the civil war was so brutal, Spain was very weak and stayed out of WWII. But Franco's fascist forces were still rooting out rebel forces for years afterward in typically brutal ways.
@@magicbrownie1357 Ahh my bad I must have missed it when they flashed the date
@magicbrownie1357 the Spanish Civil War was the communist takeover, and patriots took up arms to save/protect their country. As was happening throughout Europe.
So is nobody going to talk about how brutal the Captain first kill was with the bottle to the face?! That kill scared me as a kid
Watching this just makes me think of what could have been if del Toro had ended up making the Hobbit movie.
16:24 Hey, I didn't know Mitch McConnell was in this movie!
Im excited for this one! Great film.
The pale man is one of my favorite monsters of all time.
The pale man is the creepiest monster I've seen in any movie ever.
This is number 2 on my all time top 10 list. Love this movie.
What's number 1?
10. Casablanca
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original version)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
7. Spirited Away
6. The Silence of the Lambs
5. My Neighbor Totoro
4. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Star Wars (all original trilogy sharing one spot)
2. Pan's Labyrinth
1. The Princess Bride
@@peacocca190 good list :)
Love that monster....talk about Hand-Eye coordination 😎
You can breathe a sigh of release. The magic is real and happening.
Both the labyrinth opening and the flower at the end, shows it.
I would love it if that were really true. Unfortunately, it's not. She was clearly imagining all of the "magic" in order to escape from the horrors of reality. It's pretty obvious, actually. We see her talking to nothing at the end when the captain is pursuing her.
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa16534 Or the captain just can't see the Faun, who if real and like most trickster fae, could possibly choose who saw him or not. Note that, of the magical elements, the captain could certainly see the mandragora well enough to pick it up and destroy it.
It's larger than life ❤ a true masterpiece
Guillermo del Toro's best movie so far!
This is one of the most tragic movies I’ve ever seen. Ophelia’s life has been sorrowful that even her fantasy elements are scary and upsetting.
Humans can always be scarier than any made-up monster.
Imagine: there are still a lot of people, who didn't understand the lessons of this time in history and are essentially rooting for the Captain.
Oh let's go! This movie is incredible! I'm so glad you loved it so much. You had basically the same reaction I did when I first saw it. I just had to sit and dwell on it for a while.
See, at the start, it said that her father knew that one day, her soul would return home. So she just left her body behind when she did.
i don't know if you got this or not but the film took place during the spanish civil war (1936-39) which brought fascist franco to power. franco had fascist italy and nazi germany on his side. the other side, called "the republicans," were anti-fascist, pro-democracy groups who were brutally betrayed by the "western democracies" and were left on their own to be annihilated by the fascists. franco ruled spain with an iron fist until his death in 1975.
i think this film is a metaphor not only for the civil war but franco's cruel 35 year rule and the innocent blood he shed to stay in power. and spains rebirth as a free society after franco's death. EXCELLENT FILM. one of my favorites from the 2000s. thanks for the video.
- Hellboy.
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.
Please.
Thank's!!
2004 Hellboy, that is.
hellboy isn´t good in my oppinion. but pans labirinth is one of the best movies ever made
This movie is one of my favorite movies to watch. Such amazing cast of actors in this film. A friend of mine took us to see this at an independent movie theater in Chicago that showed independent movies. I never heard of this film and i didn’t know what it was about. I was creeped out by everything when I first seen it. This movie was made by the director that did Hell Boy and the Hobbit movies
such a wonderful story
Captain Vidal is one of the most cruel and hated villains of all time.
I personally find the ending more beautiful assuming that it was all in her head and that she instead died and was freed from her mortal coil.
What all original fairy tale are like in terms of tone before people start watching Disney and forget Disney isn't the origin of fairy tales.
Funny thing about this movie i had no idea it was it in a foreign language when i bought it and almost decided to not watch it since i had never really watch a movie with subtitles before and figured it would be too much work to try to keep up with the subtitles and what was happening on screen. But i watched it anyways and am glad i did it was a fantastic film that took you to another realm and was beautiful also if not also rough at times and i loved the ending where i do believe that Ofelia went back home to rule.
This is the second of two "bookend" movies. The first is almost as good. It's called "The Devil's Backbone". After seeing Pan's it took me a few years to find a copy of Devil's, and the wait was worth it. Pan's always tricked me, I don't know who to recommend it to. It's very childish in some ways which leaves out alot of people, But at the same time it is very brutal which leaves out alot of others. It is movie that is what movie making is all about. I swas so glad When Guillermo won for best movie and director finally with "The Shape of Water". He works with tha same masters like his cinematographer who is an artist. Hellboy is another great looking and fun movie from this bunch.
Nice! My favorite movie and I think the best movie ever made, certainly in the top 5. The reason this movie is so great is because he actually made a Fairytale and not some mind-numbing Disney turd. It is a Fairytale for everyone. Go and read the original versions of Grimms or any other old fairytale, they are not the watered down versions being printed today.
It was certainly surprising how good it was.
Out the same year, another epic fantasy tale - The Fall, and, you should also check out another Guillermo del Toro masterpiece - The Devil's Backbone. Both excellent tales.
Might have been pointed out before, that the Faun and the hand eye monster were played by the same guy, the only American on the set. Moreover, he did not speak Spanish. This movie ties in with Del Toro's "The Devils Backbone".
I agree.
Agree , that was an incredible movie and very disturbing at the same time, Del Toro is so good at it and that's why this kind of story stays in our minds for so long ^^ not a lot of storyteller/director can manage to do it, Burton was one of those IMO
One of my top 10 all times
I made my adopted mom watch this movie before she died because i had some very weird experiences and pans labyrinth comes close to some of my own experiences but not quite.
Magic does exist. That is a part of the sadness. Many parents try to discourage their children from seeing ghosts fairies etc. When you're an adult youre told its a hallucination or a lie. Some people are lucky or unlucky enough to have those experiences and keep it with them the rest of their lives
Great film
Like you, I have never seen this, so for once, broke my rule and watched your reaction - just as a sounding board. I have just ordered my copy on the strength of it. There are a couple of other films (foreign language) I could recommend which I think you'd love. Jean de Florette & Manon Des Sources both together as 1 film. Classics in every sense of the word.
To be in the mind of Guillermo del Toro…he gets the praise he does for good reason
I absolutely love this movie. It is much truer to the original fairy-tale lore than modern sanitized versions. And yes (as always) we humans are the real monsters. Speaking of that, the pile of children's shoes also has a real-life counterpart - at Auschwitz...
The magical parts are real - if you believe they are. Del Toro himself that while he wants the audience to take away the ending as they choose, little details show that the story has plot issues if the magic is in Ofelia's head. The most obvious of them is that if the magic didn't work, then the chalk doesn't work, and there was no other way for Ofelia to escape her locked room. But Del Toro also notes that, little things like that aside, its up to the audience what they believe. Del Toro himself has stated that he, at least, believes that the magic was real.
Another great one in the same vein by the same director is "The Devil's Backbone" - not as perfect as this one but still very good and highly recommended. Considered a "sister movie" to this one.
Addie, one of the few and I think the only one thus far who is reacting to this well-earned named masterpiece! Yeah, there are top notch movies that already on the channel that are chilling and disturbing and frightening, like Seven, No Country, Silence of the Lambs, and yet this one stands out like "did I just see that??" I do recommend Hellboy, Hellboy 2, Mimic by Guillermo Del Toro! And comes to mind, Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Yes, and seconding recommend below, Constantine. Is it scary, Pan's Labyrinth, or creepy? Yes.
I like when Addie gets her eyes watery 🥹
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