50 Fun Facts About Pan's Labyrinth

Which body part holds the eyes of the child-eating Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth?

His hands hold the Pale Man's eyes, a feature shared with the Tenome, a monster of Japanese folklore whose name means hand eyes.

Which creature holds a key in its belly in the first task Ofelia faces in Pan's Labyrinth?

A toad swallowed the key, and Guillermo del Toro performed the giant creature's noises himself.

Which forbidden food does Ofelia eat at the Pale Man's feast in Pan's Labyrinth, waking the monster?

Grapes tempt Ofelia despite the faun's warning to eat nothing, and the woken Pale Man devours two of her fairy guides.

At which film festival did Pan's Labyrinth premiere to a standing ovation lasting 22 minutes?

Cannes hosted the premiere in May 2006, and the film then waited until October for its first cinema release, in Spain.

Captain Vidal, the fascist officer of Pan's Labyrinth, is which relation to the young heroine Ofelia?

Her stepfather is a Civil Guard officer sent to hunt rebels in the hills, and Ofelia arrives with her pregnant mother Carmen to join him.

Guillermo del Toro wanted the Faun of Pan's Labyrinth played less like David Bowie and more like which rock star?

Mick Jagger was the model, with the director asking for a glam rocker's swagger from a creature made of earth, moss, vines and tree bark.

Which fantasy film did Guillermo del Toro turn down the chance to direct in order to make Pan's Labyrinth?

The Chronicles of Narnia went to another director, and del Toro later called his own film his version of that universe of children's literature.

Which creature, which Ofelia takes for a fairy, leads her into the stone maze in Pan's Labyrinth?

A stick insect later appears in Ofelia's bedroom, where it changes into a fairy and guides her to the faun.

Which dictator rules Spain during Pan's Labyrinth, set five years after his victory in the Spanish Civil War?

Francisco Franco held power until his death in 1975, and the film's guerrillas are still fighting his regime from the hills in 1944.

The actor behind the Faun in Pan's Labyrinth later played the Amphibian Man in which Guillermo del Toro film?

The Shape of Water won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo del Toro.

Which gift from the faun in Pan's Labyrinth reveals the three tasks Ofelia must complete?

A book called the Book of Crossroads sets out the tasks, and one limited DVD edition of the film was packaged to look like it.

Whom does the faun tell Ofelia to bring into the maze for her third and final task in Pan's Labyrinth?

Her brother, a newborn, is wanted for a little innocent blood to open the portal, and Ofelia refuses to let him be harmed.

Which object must Ofelia steal from the Pale Man's lair in her second task in Pan's Labyrinth?

A dagger is what the faun sends her to fetch, and she sets out with three fairy guides to help her find it.

Which plant root does the faun give Ofelia to place under her sick mother's bed in Pan's Labyrinth?

Mandrake seems to ease Carmen's illness while Ofelia feeds it drops of blood, until Carmen throws it into the fire.

Which magic item does Ofelia carry, along with three fairy guides, into her second task in Pan's Labyrinth?

A piece of chalk lets Ofelia draw her own door into the lair, and she barely escapes after waking the monster that dwells there.

Which keepsake does the dying Captain Vidal hope to smash in Pan's Labyrinth, just as his own father did?

A pocket watch would tell his son the hour of his death, as his own father's did, but the rebels refuse the request and shoot him.

The Rotten Tomatoes consensus calls Pan's Labyrinth a grown-up version of which children's fantasy classic?

Alice in Wonderland is the comparison, and Lewis Carroll's Alice stories were among the works Guillermo del Toro drew on for the film.

What job does Mercedes hold under Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth while secretly aiding the rebels?

Housekeeper Mercedes passes a second copy of the granary key to the guerrillas, who use it to raid the Captain's stockpiled supplies.

What is the profession of Ferreiro, shot by Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth for ending a tortured rebel's suffering?

Doctor Ferreiro serves the Captain while secretly opposing the regime, and he ends the captive's life at the man's own urging.

In the fairy tale that opens Pan's Labyrinth, what blinds the runaway princess and wipes her memory?

Sunlight strikes her in the human world, where she turns mortal and dies, so her father builds labyrinths as portals for her spirit's return.

Which actor plays both the Faun and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, spending five hours a day in makeup?

Doug Jones spoke no Spanish and learned his lines anyway, though a theatre actor's voice was later dubbed over his performance.

Which country, rather than Spain, submitted Pan's Labyrinth for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar?

Mexico entered the film, which reached the final five nominees and won three Oscars in craft categories.

Besides Art Direction and Makeup, which third Oscar did Pan's Labyrinth win, collected by Guillermo Navarro?

Cinematography went to Navarro, who had to work with a largely unfamiliar Spanish crew because his usual team was unavailable.

Which job did Guillermo del Toro do himself on Pan's Labyrinth after hating the results on his previous Spanish film?

Writing the subtitles took him a month with two helpers, because he did not want audiences to feel they were watching a subtitled film.

The sagging skin of the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth was inspired by which change in Guillermo del Toro's own body?

Losing weight gave the director the idea for the saggy-skinned monster, whose legs were attached over the performer's green leotard.

Guillermo del Toro nearly lost his notebook of ideas for Pan's Labyrinth by leaving it where in London?

In a taxi is where it went missing, and the cabbie returned it two days later; del Toro had kept such notebooks for twenty years.

American producers offered to double the budget of Pan's Labyrinth if Guillermo del Toro made which change?

Shooting it in English, in the United States, would have doubled his money, but del Toro refused and the film became an independent project.

Composer Javier Navarrete built his entire Oscar-nominated score for Pan's Labyrinth around which kind of tune?

A lullaby runs through the whole score, and del Toro had all of it put on the soundtrack album, including music cut from the film.

The title Pan's Labyrinth names a god from which mythology, though the original Spanish title just says faun?

Greek myth supplies the goat-legged god Pan, yet del Toro has said the faun in his film is not that god at all.

Pan's Labyrinth is a spiritual successor to which earlier ghost story set in a wartime orphanage?

The Devil's Backbone came out in 2001, and the two boys who led its cast return in Pan's Labyrinth as unnamed guerrilla soldiers.

Which Y tu mamá también actress plays Mercedes, who spies on Captain Vidal for the rebels in Pan's Labyrinth?

Maribel Verdú was chosen because del Toro saw a sadness in her that he thought was perfect for the compassionate revolutionary.

Which Spanish actress was eleven when she filmed her role as Ofelia, the young heroine of Pan's Labyrinth?

Ivana Baquero was older than the girl of eight or nine del Toro had written, so he changed the screenplay to fit her.

Which Catalan actor, seen by doubtful producers as a comic performer, plays Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth?

Sergi López heard the whole plot from del Toro in a pitch lasting two and a half hours, and the finished script reached him a year later.

Which part of the Pale Man's mask did its performer have to look out through while filming Pan's Labyrinth?

The nostrils were his only window on the set, and the same performer also plays the faun who sends Ofelia on her tasks.

Which part of the Faun costume in Pan's Labyrinth, fitted last, weighed ten pounds and tired its wearer out?

The horns went on at the end of the makeup session, while the creature's flapping ears and blinking eyes were worked by remote control.

As a child, Guillermo del Toro dreamed a faun stepped from behind which object, the seed of Pan's Labyrinth?

A grandfather clock hid the creature, which del Toro says stepped out every midnight during his childhood bouts of lucid dreaming.

What must a stammering captive do without stuttering to escape torture by Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth?

Count to three is the order, and the man fails; before he dies he indirectly betrays the spy working inside the Captain's house.

In Pan's Labyrinth, Captain Vidal kills two farmers as suspected rebels, though they were only hunting which animals?

Rabbits were all the two men were after, and the killings come as Ofelia is learning how ruthless her mother's new husband is.

The Pale Man of Pan's Labyrinth, who ignores his feast to eat children, was meant as a criticism of which institution?

The Catholic Church is the target, yet the director Alejandro González Iñárritu, a friend of del Toro, called the result a truly Catholic film.

Which review aggregator named Pan's Labyrinth its best-reviewed film of the 2000s, with a score of 98 out of 100?

Metacritic drew that score from the reviews of 37 critics, and in 2010 it named the film the best reviewed of the decade.

Which German drama about a Stasi agent in East Berlin beat Pan's Labyrinth to the Foreign Language Film Oscar?

The Lives of Others took the award for Germany, leaving Pan's Labyrinth with three wins from its six nominations.

Which German author of the Inkheart novels co-wrote the 2019 novelization of Pan's Labyrinth with Guillermo del Toro?

Cornelia Funke began her career as a social worker and then an illustrator before her fantasy stories for children made her name.

Which name, borrowed from the French resistance, describes the guerrillas Captain Vidal hunts in Pan's Labyrinth?

The Maquis took their name from the French word for scrubland, and many of Spain's fighters had first served with the resistance in France.

In a tale Guillermo del Toro wrote for Pan's Labyrinth, which flower on a thorn-ringed mountaintop grants immortality?

A blue rose waits at the peak, guarded in del Toro's full version by a dragon named Varanium Silex, a part cut short for budget reasons.

The fairies of Pan's Labyrinth were meant to look like dirty little monkeys until animators added wings made of what?

Leaves were the animation company's idea, a rare digital flourish in a film that relies mostly on makeup and animatronics.

Which science fiction and fantasy prize did Pan's Labyrinth win for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form?

Hugo Award voters chose it in 2007 over finalists including Children of Men, whose director Alfonso Cuarón was one of the producers of Pan's Labyrinth.

Which guerrilla, the sibling of Mercedes, shoots Captain Vidal dead at the end of Pan's Labyrinth?

Pedro fires the shot after Mercedes tells the Captain that his infant son will never even learn his name.

Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth is a devotee of which fascist ideology that originated in Spain?

Falangism stresses total authority, hierarchy and order in society, values the Captain enforces on his household and his prisoners alike.

Pan's Labyrinth was filmed in a Scots pine forest in which mountain range of central Spain?

Guadarrama forms the eastern stretch of the Sistema Central, and its slopes hold some of the best natural Scots pine forests in Spain.

What is the name of the lost underworld princess whom the faun believes Ofelia to be in Pan's Labyrinth?

Moanna, in the tale that closes the film, goes on to rule her father's kingdom with kindness and justice for many centuries.