Cronos
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Thriller, World cinema, Gothic Film, Drama
Year: 1993
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish Language, English Language
Starring: Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Ron Perlman, Tamara Shanath, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mario Iván Martínez, Farnesio de Bernal, Juan Carlos Colombo, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Guillermo del Toro
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring veteran Argentine actor Federico Luppi and American actor Ron Perlman, the first of several films on which del Toro, Luppi and Perlman have collaborated. In North America the film was given limited release to 2 theaters where it grossed $17,538 its opening weekend and grossed a total of $621,392 playing at a total of 28 screens.
The prologue states that in the year 1535, an alchemist in Vera Cruz developed a mechanism that could give eternal life. In 1937 an old building collapsed, and the alchemist, who now has marble white skin, is killed when his heart is pierced by the debris. Investigators never revealed what else was discovered in the building, but viewers are shown basins filled with blood from a corpse.
In the present, an old antique dealer, Jesús Gris, notices that the base of an archangel statue is hollow. He opens it and finds a 450-year-old mechanical device in the base. After winding the ornate, golden, scarab-shaped device, it suddenly unfurls spider-like legs that grip him tightly, and it inserts a needle into his skin which injects him with an unidentified solution.
The viewer
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