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"Cronos"
1992
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro

"Inventive, entertaining film blends wit, horror, tragedy, and suspense in about equal doses..."  Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. An ingenious alchemist creates a device that grants him eternal life. 400 years later an elderly antique dealer discovers the properties of this unique invention. Though he grows younger every time he uses this device, there is a terrible price to pay. Life after death becomes a bloody promise without end. This film won Grand Prize during Critics' Week at Cannes as well as awards from the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film and the Catalonian International Film Festival. Spanish with English subtitles.
92 minutes.