Cronos

When I knew who directed this film, I wanted to watch it immediately. I rented it and found myself almost falling asleep in a lot of parts. This film had a great story, but executed poorly. Stick to Pan's Labyrinth, The... Full review

When I knew who directed this film, I wanted to watch it immediately. I rented it and found myself almost falling asleep in a lot of parts. This film had a great story, but executed poorly. Stick to Pan's Labyrinth, The... Full review

The movie is about a old man ,who finds a incredible mechanical mosquito (Cronos). and cronos changes his life forever. cronos is a life extending machine, but at last the old man (Jesus) finds out "the juice isn't worht to squeeze"... Full review

Esta es una excelente pelicula, dirigida de manera magistral por Del Toro, una de las mejores peliculas de genero realizadas en México... Full review

Esta es una excelente pelicula, dirigida de manera magistral por Del Toro, una de las mejores peliculas de genero realizadas en M... Full review

THIS BIZZARE BUT ENJOYABLE AND WELL MADE FLICK COMES FROM THE AWSOME DIRECTOR GULLIERMO DEL TORRO ITS REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN CAuse its truly unique anyway u have to see this movie if u want something unique... Full review

Cronos is the first Guillermo Del Toro movie, and it is a great achievement. There's not much to say : it is a beautiful movie, a classical, beautiful and simple movie. There's some fantastic in it, but that's not all... Full review

CronosDuring Bravo's "Top 100 Scariest Moments" (should've been "Movies" instead) countdown, I happened to catch the sequence about this particular film. It looked pretty damn good, so I set myself out to see it. It's directed by the man best... Full review

Guillermo Del Toro's stylish and original take on the vampire legend is one of the most strangely overlooked and underrated films of the 1990's. It's films like this that make me want to watch films - films that are fresh,... Full review

An antiques dealer finds a device that gives everlasting life, but with it comes a horrible price.Cronos follows the story of a kind hearted Mexican antiques dealer Jesus (a well cast Frederico Luppi), who one day stumbles upon a huge... Full review

The film is visually stunning. He has made six features since his debut at 29 with " Cronos " (1993), and I have admired, even loved, all of them, even those like " Hellboy ," " Mimic " and " Blade II " that did not receive the universal acclaim of " Cronos " and " The Devil's Backbone " (a ghost story also set in Franco's Spain). ... Full Review

Del Toro, a Mexican known for the equally stylish comic-horror romp Cronos, is excellent at blending the imagery of spare European drama with the extravagant special effects of horror. The kindly professor (Federico Luppi) is obsessed with the proprietor, even though he knows she has sex with his loved one. ... Full Review

There are a couple of excellent plot twists in The Devil's Backbone, but what makes the film so haunting is del Toro's confident direction. The performances of the children are outstanding and Noriega brings a genuine sensuality to his character's evil. ... Full Review

Cronos" is not rated but would doubtless get an R for a fair amount of violence and gore, as well as some profanity. An extremely bizarre cross of traditional vampire and zombie movies, with a bit of "Death Becomes Her" tossed into the mix, the Mexican film "Cronos" is hard to categorize. ... Full Review

DVD art for "Cronos. Cronos " won the grand prize in the Critics' Week at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, and nine Mexican Academy Awards, including best picture and director. ... Full Review

Hot on the heals of the news that Guillermo Del Toro's first feature Cronos was being re-released on DVD by none other than the Criterion collection word came, and a purdy picture as well that Del Toro's first Hollywood film,... ... Full Article

Continuing my series on TOP 10 lists we move into the sub-genre of horror films that involve the immortal vampires. One of the most popular sub-genre of horror films with an average of over ten vampire films produced every year... ... Full Article

The 10-minute recording of Venom singer Cronos ranting between songs in New Jersey in 1986 is perhaps the most widely circulated stage banter in history, and for good reason: The quips are insane and unintentionally hilarious. ... Full Article

When people think of Asian monsters, men in rubber suits stomping Tokyo usually come to mind. But director Bong Joon-ho's THE HOST is about to rudely change that perception, beginning with its Korean setting. ... Full Article

What a strange film this is. The second-highest-budgeted Mexican movie since Like Water for Chocolate, this import is an impressive, disturbing rumination on the ancient theme of eternal life, and the lengths men will go to in pursuing its brass... ... Full Article

At $2 million, "Cronos" is the second-highest budgeted film in the history of Mexican cinema -- after "Chocolate." Unlike that mystical-sensual tragicomedy, though, "Cronos" is a horror genre film about vampires -- but one so well conceived and executed that ... Full Article