I recently watched Pan’s Labyrinth, a fairy tale with the real world of WWII despair and triumph. At first I wondered why they gave a movie like this an “R” rating… it didn’t take long to find out. Very viscous graphic. Oh, did I forget to mention it’s subtitled… from Spanish.
The story is set in Spain during the second world war. A little girl named Ofelia and her pregnant mother travel to join her new father, a Fascist officer in the pro-Franco army. Her only escape is a fairy tale waiting to be unearthed. Really really weird but in the end it’s a very good and award winning movie.
Last week I watched a movie called MirrorMask. Almost as weird but not as gruesome. Thanks Netflix for the disturbing dreams.






