Pan's Labyrinth (2006) movie poster

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

El laberinto del fauno
"Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine."
ThumbScore
👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 96%
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Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
R
Country
Mexico, Spain, United States of America
Language
Spanish
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (11,309 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
98

Cast

Ivana Baquero as Ofelia · 67% avg
Sergi López as Capitán Vidal · 69% avg
Maribel Verdú as Mercedes · 65% avg
Ariadna Gil as Carmen · 74% avg
Doug Jones as Fauno / Pale Man · 72% avg
Álex Angulo as Dr. Ferreiro · 75% avg
Manolo Solo as Garcés · 67% avg

Is Pan's Labyrinth good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 96%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#34 / 937 · Fantasy
Rank in its year
#3 / 206 · 2006
Rank among its director's films

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, set in Spain in 1944 in the aftermath of the Civil War. The film follows Ofelia, a young girl played by Ivana Baquero, who moves with her pregnant mother to the rural estate of Captain Vidal, her new stepfather played by Sergi López, a sadistic fascist military officer hunting Republican guerrillas in the surrounding forest. Escaping the horror of Vidal's cruelty, Ofelia discovers an ancient labyrinth near the estate where a faun tells her she is the reincarnation of Princess Moanna of the underworld and must complete three dangerous tasks before the full moon to reclaim her throne.

Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece operated on two planes simultaneously — the historical reality of fascist Spain, depicted with unflinching brutality, and the fairy tale realm of the labyrinth, rendered with dark, beautiful imagination — leaving the audience to decide whether Ofelia's fantasy world is a genuine magical reality or a psychological escape from unbearable suffering. The creature designs, realized primarily through practical effects and puppetry by DDT Studios, were among the most memorable in fantasy cinema, particularly the Pale Man — a horrifying eyeless creature with eyes in its palms — who became an iconic image of modern horror. Pan's Labyrinth earned $83 million worldwide on a $19 million budget and won three Academy Awards for Art Direction, Cinematography, and Makeup.

It is widely considered one of the greatest fantasy films ever made and the definitive work of Guillermo del Toro's career.

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