Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain star in this Gothic romance with notes of horror and bathed in the unreal and magical colors of a baroque Italian horror.
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mike Mignola’s cult comic stars a perfect Ron Perlman as the cigar-puffing, wisecracking, kitten-loving demon who covertly battles supernatural monsters.
This elemental ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is both an escape from and a fantastical reflection of the horrors of Francisco Franco’s reign of terror in 1944 Spain.