I've found many descriptions that dub Pan's Labyrinth as a fairy tale for adults, but I'd say that it's a well-crafted horror movie in disguise as a fantasy film and period piece, like a haunting "Alice in Wonderland" in civil war Spain. I heard nothing but rave reviews about it since it came out, but it wasn't until almost five years later that I got around to watching it; it's not the kind of movie that I would toss into the DVD player and run in the background as I do chores or surf the web because its subject matter and it's spoken entirely in Spanish. Initially I was daunted by the prospect of watching this movie but I was handsomely rewarded when I finally saw it. If the story doesn't linger in your memory, the theme/melody will. I don't really do horror movies, so this would be the film I would watch tonight (and I could because, after 20 hours, the power has come back on! Alas, this is one of the holes in my DVD collection.)
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