Aces of Weird: Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1992)

God bless Guillermo del Toro, patron saint of the fantastic. Creators of the weird and wonderful should have a candlelit icon of the Mexican maestro framed above their desk, his boyish mop haloed with tentacles, a third eye peering from an open palm, owlish behind those glasses, bearded and beaming like an eldritch Santa. He’s one of our greatest living fantasists, the monster kid made good. As an Oscar-winning filmmaker, artist, producer, writer and fanboy, he balances a child’s love of the lur...