Cronos
In 1536, in Veracruz, Mexico, during the Inquisition, an alchemist builds a mysterious and sophisticated device named Cronos to provide eternal life to the owner. In the present days, the antiques dealer Jesus Gris finds Cronos hidden inside an ancient statue while cleaning it with his granddaughter Aurora. He accidentally triggers the device and soon his wife Mercedes and he note that he has a younger appearance. Out of the blue, the stranger Angel de la Guardia visits Gris's shop and buys the old statue. On the next day, Gris finds his shop trashed and Angel's card on the floor. He pays a visit to Angel that introduces him to the eccentric millionaire De la Guardia that explains the healing power and the eternal life given by Cronos. Angel is sent by De la Guardia to hunt down Gris to get Cronos no matter the costs.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/
Video encoded in two-pass 9 000 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles for Spanish dialogue and English subtitles for Spanish parts of commentary track OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : Guillermo del Toro's first film is something of an odd duck, a Mexico-US coproduction set in a near future Mexico City where streetsigns are in Spanish, English, Russian, Arabic and Chinese, and everything seems a little off. All of del Toro's obsessions are on display, though, ancient texts, clockwork, insects, clockwork that looks like insects, body horror, vampirism, innocent children caught up in very adult evil, and two of his favorite actors, Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Federico Luppi (The Devil's Backbone). It's a story of the alchemical search for eternal life gone awry, with an ancient invention for extending the users' life also turning them into vampires. It's inventive and original, if not entirely steady and mature yet in terms of dialogue and some plot choices, but well worth watching for del Toro fans.
This Criterion version isn't really all that great, slightly fuzzy and low detail, although contrast is good and it's not too grainy. Could definitely have done with a new remaster, though, and maybe a 5.1 upmix. The commentary tracks are interesting, especially del Toro's.
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