Sharp, stylish, memorable. Everything that Photoshopped studio movie posters are not. Comic book artist Mike Mignola drew the poster, he of Hellboy fame, which Del Toro adapted into an excellent feature film.
Pan's Labyrinth is apparently a horror/fantasy about a little girl who creates an imaginary world of fantastical creatures. I'm guessing that the imaginary world turns out to be not so imaginary. The setting for the film is intriguing: rural Spain in 1944. Early word on the film is that it's bold and imaginative. Some have called it a 'masterpiece.'
It looks to be close in tone and mood to Del Toro's great ghost story The Devil's Backbone which, if you haven't seen it, is a must-see. Moody, atmospheric, occasionally very scary, yet with a fully realized dramatic story and characters, The Devil's Backbone is one of the best supernatural-themed films for a long time. Pan's Labyrinth has just jumped to near the top of my must-see list for 2006. However, we have a long wait; the release date is December 29.
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