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An Academy Award winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan's Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone, Cronos). Eleven year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi Lopez), a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child's imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.

Special Features:

• Newly graded 2K digital master, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro
• Audio commentary by del Toro from 2007
• New interview with del Toro by novelist Cornelia Funke about fairy tales, fantasy, and Pan’s Labyrinth
• New interview with actor Doug Jones
• Four 2007 making-of documentaries examining the characters, special effects, themes, and music of the film
• Interactive director’s notebook
• Footage of actor Ivana Baquero’s audition for the film
• Animated comics featuring prequel stories for the film’s menagerie of creatures
• Programs comparing selected production storyboards and del Toro’s thumbnail sketches with the final film; visual effects work for the Green Fairy; and elements of the film’s score
• Trailers and TV spots
• English subtitle translation approved by del Toro
• An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson