very nice movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2008)

(my first comment on this site, please excuse if it's not that perfect)
this is a horror-fairy-tale for adult people and really NOT FOR CHILDREN. If you like movies like "Lady in the Water" (from M. Night Shayalaman; better than expected) and "Devil's Backbone" (same director like "Pan's"; but even better) you will like this one. It is set in Spain 1944 (WW2/civil-war; like Devil's Backbone) and has a lot of mystical atmosphere, you're following the imaginary fantasy-world of a little girl in the brutal war-time. In fact there are some brutal scenes in it and they're gory, but there are not very voyeuristic. I think, the movies made from Guillermo del Torro are much better than from M. Night Shayalaman and the "Harry-Potter"-series.