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Cronos DVD

R (Restricted) :: Lions Gate :: Released: 2003-10-14

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Cronos Summary Guillermo del Toro's facility with baroque visuals, gothic horror, and black comedy comes to the fore in his first feature (his affection for creepy-crawlies also anticipates the underrated Mimic). A 16th-century prologue reveals the origins of the scarab-shaped Cronos device, which allowed a Spanish alchemist to expand his lifetime by several centuries. In the present day, Mexican antiquities dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi, who reunited with del Toro for The Devil's Backbone) dotes on his unflappable granddaughter, Aurora (Tamara Shanath). When the device ends up in Gris's shop, he tangles with the petulant Angel (Hellboy's Ron Perlman), whose critically ill uncle, Dieter (Claudio Brook, Exterminating Angel), longs to purchase the relic, but Gris isn't selling. After the mechanism stings the merchant, he feels more youthful, and becomes addicted to the sensation. His newfound taste for blood, however, only increases after he morphs into a nocturnal creature, much like Mimic's man-sized cockroach. With Cronos, del Toro created a unique vampire-zombie hybrid, since Gris's resistance to age blooms just as his flesh starts to wither. In an excellent commentary track, he describes the movie as a reinvention of the vampire myth in alchemical terms. Other extras include commentary from the producers, a gory student short, a tour of the director's amazing offices, interviews with cast and crew (including Luppi and Perlman), a stills gallery (including family photographs), and an essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh, who praises del Toro as a filmmaker with an eye "attuned to the beauty in the darkness." --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Cronos DVD Techincal Details Cast: Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 94 mins
UPC: 031398101826
Binding: DVD
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 2003-10-14
Region Code: 1
Specs: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language),