Pans Labyrinth

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2007)

The movie is in Spanish, with English subtitles. The movie is full of a lot of graphic violence because of torture scenes. The movie is NOT for squeamish people. The movie takes place in 1944 Spain during the war. This is a pretty good movie.
Spoiler Coming Up It starts out Ofelia and her mom Carmen meeting Carmens husband, who is a Captain. He is a ruthless, cruel man. You see at the beginning Ofelia reading fairy tales. Ofelia sees something in the woods. She follows in and is lead to a labyrinth. That night the thing she saw visits her and turns into a fairy. It leads her to the labyrinth where she meets a faun. He tells her she is a princess and if she looked on her shoulder there would be the mark for the underworld. He then gives her a book and says to open it when she is alone. Then she must complete three tasks by when the moon is full. Meanwhile, the captain catches a farmer and kills him brutally. The movie continues on with Ofelia filling her three tasks.