Guillermo Del Toro’s masterful epic is one of the great films to depict the horrors of fascism with fantastic allegory. Always obsessed with creatures large and small, Del Toro created some of cinema’s most memorable monsters for this story about a young girl who discovers a magical but dangerous underworld when she moves to the woodland home of her wicked stepfather, a captain in Franco’s army. Thrilling and beautiful, the film casts a glorious spell and begs to be seen on the big screen.