I mean it's great but I don't know whether to be awed or distressed that this came from the same director who made Pacific Rim.

I'm going to be inconsolable for days.

And mama, which came out this year

PAN'S LABYRINTH WAS SO FUCKING TRAUMATIZING???

/holds :CC

actually i didn't know he didn't direct Mama, just produced it XD but yes, the devil's backbone is really really good!

:'D I'll wait a while before watching those recs. There's only so much human cruelty and despair I can take.

Unless I have happy shows to act as chasers, anyway...

God, those concurrent storylines. Ofelia's fantasy world on one side and then all that bloodshed and torture on the reality side...

I'll admit that it's beautiful, but yeah, it was really fucking traumatizing lmao.

THAT PALE MAN WAS TERRIFYING HOLY FUCK

I was like, girl wtf are you doing why are you lingering in that room eating grapes with your back turned to that thing.

And then I got to the end with her lying on the lip of the well and was like... Oh... that's the opening sequence... ;A;

the pale man was legitimately horrifying

Haha the faun and the pale man and Abe Sapien from Hellboy are all played by the same actor.