Cronos (film)
- Federico Luppi: Jesus Gris
- Ron Perlman: Angel de la Guardia
- Claudio Brook: Dieter de la Guardia
- Margarita Isabel: Mercedes Gris
- Tamara Shanath: Aurora Gris
- Daniel Giménez Cacho: Tito, the taxidermist
- Mario Ivan Martinez: Alchemist
- Farnesio de Bernal: Manuelito
- Juan Carlos Colombo: undertaker
Cronos is a Mexican horror film from 1993, although it picks up vampire and zombie designs, but less relies on shock elements, but more on the relationship of the protagonist arrives with each other. The film is directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Action
Jesus Gris is an antique dealer. He lives with his wife Mercedes and his granddaughter Aurora, who never speaks a word. Is little use in his business, so that it remains time to play with his granddaughter. Only a single client is looking obviously a certain statue. From an examined by this man angel statue crawl shortly after cockroaches. When looking up Jesus finds its base in a mysterious, about fist-sized, beetle -like, golden apparatus. When he rears him to a spring, clings to this and stabs Jesus in the hand. Jesus takes the beetle to his home and put him to become addicted, in the sequence several times. He feels by younger and more dynamic, but it is a craving for blood.
The next morning, he finds his antique shop raided and devastated. On the table is the business card of Angel, the brutish nephew of the terminally ill industrialist De la Guardia. Angel has previously bought the now empty angel statue for his uncle and obviously wanted the apparatus. This industrialist has dropped the notebook of an alchemist from the 16th century into the hands of some time ago, and now he is desperately in search of Cronos, the life-extending apparatus.
Jesus Gris examined for De la Guardia and is privy to the existence of the notebook. He does not want to give up but Cronos. That is why he is crushed by Angel, dying set in a car and rolled down a cliff. Just before his cremation awakened Jesus due to the effect of Cronos back to life. He sees his own obituary and tried in vain to contact his wife. Aurora lets Jesus into the house and hid it during the day in their toy chest.
At night, make the two to get the notebook of the alchemists. They are caught by De La Guardia and this is reflected in the sequence of Aurora. Greedy Jesus drinks the leaking blood. The alarmed Angel pursues the two. A fight on a factory roof. Here, Jesus crashes with Angel in depth. Aurora Jesus revived again by tackling him Cronos. That feeling after waking again his thirst for blood and is about to drop his granddaughter. At the last moment it begins to speak: "Grandpa ". Jesus then destroyed Cronos and dies without its life-prolonging effect soon after.
Budget
The budget has been increased from 1.5 million to 2 million dollars. Until that time it was the most expensive Mexican film. This expenditure is not out of hand, Ron Perlman agreed to a reduction in his salary.
Background knowledge
- An alchemist named Fulcanelli there was actually. He lived and worked in France and disappeared in the 1940s in mysterious ways.
- The original film footage of Cronos were stolen. The director has only copies.
- Max von Sydow was originally intended for the role of Jesus Gris.
- The mechanical properties and the special effects were produced by the company Necropia, which at that time was owned by Del Toros.
- Del Toro began in 1984 with the writing of the script. The working title was Vampire of the Grey Dawn.
- At the beginning of the film is to see a parking sign that was originally made for the 1968 Olympics. The scene was shot on a wide boulevard in Mexico City, the Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas.
- Perlman's Spanish was so bad that the director was forced to change the script at one point. Spanish was henceforth no longer Angels native language. He was now American expatriate.
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Cameo
Del Toros wife is briefly seen in a scene. It carries out a dog.
Criticism
Encyclopedia of the International film: Gripping staged and well-played horror film in the form of a modern vampire variant that tries the issue to expand the dimension of "Faust " substance.
Awards
The film has 20 different prizes, including a Saturn Award for Best Genre Video Release category. As a director, Guillermo del Toro won a Golden Ariel as well as the Mercedes -Benz Award.