Not many people would've considered Guillermo Del Toro an oscar worthy name before Pan's Labyrinth and understandably so with movies like Mimic and Hellboy(I enjoy this movie a lot, but its just not oscar fodder) preceding this one. However, Del Toro turned the industry on its head with this starkly unique fairy tale. This film showed a movie can be violent, dark, sometime creepy, and still be a beautiful fairy tale, and moreso a coming of age tale. As usual with Del Toro the imagery is the first, most obvious note to make about this movie, and boy are the visuals inventive and wonderful. This film challenged me and then stole my heart and now its stolen the 15 place on my countdown to the best film of all time.
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