Pan's Labyrinth

I finally saw "Pan's Labyrinth". It's a Spanish sci-fi/ fantasy/ horror/ drama film. Crazy. My body is sore from the anxiety and revulsion. One scene my leg was in the air kicking and I was crawling up my seat.... mind you this is in a public theater. There are scenes of INTENSE gore. I'm not talking about the movies males typically watch and laugh and say, "oh man!" when they see some violence. No. Most of the people killed are killed close up by either a knife, a gun, or a glass bottle (a very brutal scene) in the face. And there are two characters who make your flesh crawl... one is an extremely imaginative villainous creature that is positively grotesque, yeah just check him out as seen here:












and the other was this horribly sadistic Spanish Fascist captain. Anyway the director Guillermo del Toro did an AMAZING job! The images really engage you emotionally. He really shows you evil, so much so that you process it viscerally. Go see the movie. It's well-worth the nauseating realism. $9.25 well spent.