Del Toro stated that he considers the story to be a parable, influenced by fairy tales, and that it addresses and continues themes related to his earlier film The Devil's Backbone, to which Pan's Labyrinth is a spiritual successor, according to del Toro in his director's DVD commentary.
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Pan's Labyrinth premiered on 27 May 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Pan's Labyrinth opened to widespread critical acclaim, with many praising the visual effects, direction, cinematography and performances.
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Pan's Labyrinth gives her a book and tells her she will find in it three tasks to complete in order for her to acquire immortality and return to her kingdom.
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Pan's Labyrinth asks Doctor Ferreiro to tend to the captive, whom Ferreiro then euthanises at the rebel's own urging.
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Pan's Labyrinth's immediately develops painful contractions and dies giving birth to Vidal's son.
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Idea for Pan's Labyrinth came from Guillermo del Toro's notebooks, which he says are filled with "doodles, ideas, drawings and plot bits".
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Pan's Labyrinth stated on The Charlie Rose Show that every midnight, he would wake up, and a faun would gradually step out from behind the grandfather's clock.
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Pan's Labyrinth became a mysterious, semi-suspicious relic who gave both the impression of trustworthiness and many signs that warn someone to never confide in him at all.
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Pan's Labyrinth then mentioned there were several clues in the movie indicating the underworld was indeed real.
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Pan's Labyrinth employs some computer-generated imagery in its effects, but it mostly uses complex make-up and animatronics.
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Pan's Labyrinth spent a month working with two other people, and said that he did not want it to "feel like.
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Pan's Labyrinth was premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on 27 May 2006.
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Pan's Labyrinth was released for download on 22 June 2007 from Channel 4's on-demand service, 4oD.
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High-definition versions of Pan's Labyrinth were released in December 2007 on both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats.
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The site's consensus reads: "Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable.
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Doug Cummings identifies the connection between Cria Cuervos, Spirit of the Beehive and Pan's Labyrinth: "Critics have been summarily referencing Spirit of the Beehive (1973) in reviews of Pan's Labyrinth, but Saura's film–at once a sister work to Erice's classic in theme, tone, even shared actress (Ana Torrent)–is no less rich a reference point.
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