Cronos (film)

Cronos is a 1993 Mexican vampire horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring veteran Argentinean actor Federico Luppi and American actor Ron Perlman. Cronos is del Toros first feature film, and the first of several films on which he collaborated with Luppi and Perlman. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

In the present, an old antique dealer, Jess Gris, notices that the base of an archangel statue is hollow. He opens it and finds a 450yearold mechanical object. After winding the ornate, golden, scarabshaped device, it suddenly unfurls spiderlike legs that grip him tightly, and inserts a needle into his skin which injects him with an unidentified solution.A living insect entombed within the device and meshed with the internal clockwork produces the solution. However, Gris is unaware of this detail until later. Eventually, he discovers that his health and vigor are returning in abundance, as is his youth. His skin loses its wrinkles, his hair thickens and his sexual appetite increases. He also develops a thirst for blood. This at first disgusts him, but he eventually succumbs to the temptation. ........

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