Review #210: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #65: Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Pan's Labyrinth is a Spanish film about a little girl who, during World War II, is taken by her mother to live with her new stepfather, a captain of the Spanish army. While there, she meets some fey creatures who claim that she is the reincarnated princess of their magical world, but in order to prove her worthiness she has to perform certain supernatural tasks before the next full moon. I definitely remember seeing part of this movie when it first came out- I recall watching the beginning with a bunch of friends in someone's basement back in like 2007- but my memories are strange, because I definitely left partway through the film, yet so much of the latter half of this movie still felt really familiar to me. I don't know if I've just gathered some of the scenes through cultural osmosis, or if certain story beats were just so well-worn by now that ...