Pan’s Labyrinth Celebrates 20 Years With a Massive SDCC Return
Twenty years after first inviting audiences into one of cinema’s most haunting fantasy worlds, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth is returning to San Diego Comic-Con for a full anniversary celebration. Fans can join an interactive convention-floor quest, attend a Hall H panel featuring del Toro and the film’s stars, enter the mystical realm at a special party and screening, and potentially earn access to an exclusive cast signing.
A Fetch Quest Leads to Guillermo del Toro
The Pan’s Labyrinth Comic-Con Fetch Quest will run Thursday and Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fans can begin by picking up a ticket at either the Toynami booth, Booth #3229, or the Insights Edition booth, Booth #2129.
The quest will send players through a series of yet-to-be-revealed challenges inspired by the film. Everyone who completes it will receive a limited-edition Pan’s Labyrinth poster.
The first 50 players to finish will receive something even more valuable: access to a private poster signing with Guillermo del Toro on Saturday, July 25. That should make this one of the weekend’s most competitive quests, especially once attendees begin sprinting between booths like the Faun personally gave them three impossible tasks.
Hall H Looks Back at a Dark Fantasy Masterpiece
On Friday, July 24, Cineverse will host “Return of a Masterpiece: The 20th Anniversary of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth” in Hall H from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Guillermo del Toro will be joined by Doug Jones, who portrayed both the Faun and Pale Man, and Ivana Baquero, who starred as Ofelia. The panel will explore the movie’s legacy while presenting exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and a 3D 4K preview of a scene from the film.
Having del Toro, Jones, and Baquero together makes this much more than a standard anniversary screening promotion. It gives fans the opportunity to hear directly from the filmmakers and performers responsible for creating characters and images that remain unforgettable two decades later.
PARQ Transforms Into Pan’s Labyrinth
The celebration continues Friday night at PARQ, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The venue will transform into a world inspired by Pan’s Labyrinth for a happy hour and special screening of the film.
Producer and DJ Flying Lotus will also perform an exclusive live DJ set, turning the anniversary into a full night of fantasy, film, music, and probably at least a few people keeping a close eye on every banquet table.
Pan’s Labyrinth Cast Reunites for an Exclusive Signing
Guillermo del Toro, Doug Jones, and Ivana Baquero will reunite again on Saturday, July 25 at 10:00 a.m. for an exclusive signing inside the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center.
The Pan’s Labyrinth Fetch Quest runs Thursday and Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Hall H anniversary panel and PARQ party take place Friday, July 24, followed by the exclusive signing on Saturday, July 25.
Goofs:continuity:
When Ofelia enters the lair of the Pale Man, she sets the hour glass down on the wall (where she entered). From when she puts it down to when it is next in shot, quite a lot of sand has fallen, and this is even before she’s walked into the banquet chamber. There is no way that the sand would have lasted past when she was eating the grapes let alone to when it supposedly did run out.continuity:
After the car stops for Carmen at the start of the film, Carmen gets back into the car first followed by Ofelia who is sitting on the right hand side as they drive off. When the car arrives at the mill Carmen gets out of the car from the right hand side followed by Ofelia.continuity:
When Vidal slices the mirror with the razor, the shaving cream is disturbed by finger marks in one shot while in all others it is smooth.revealing mistake:
When Ofelia goes down the stairs in the labyrinth and is talking to the Faun, his shadow still shows Doug Jones’ legs while they are in the stilts. The special effects crew took out his physical legs, but the shadow still exists.revealing mistake:
When Ofelia bites her finger under her mother’s bed, you can see the tube she is squeezing the blood out of.revealing mistake:
Vidal is using a Luger P-08 pistol. When he “fires” it, although smoke can be seen coming out of the barrel, the distinctive cartridge eject mechanism of the P-08 doesn’t move, nor do any spent cartridges eject. This is due to a prohibition on pyrotechnics in the forest used for filming and the sound of gunfire and muzzle flash having been added later.anachronism:
During the scene of the villagers coming to the mill to receive their food rations, a modern locomotive horn can be heard in the background.character error:
The instructions tell Ofelia to turn the hourglass over when the door opens, but she waits until she has entered the Pale Man’s domain.character error:
In the beginning of the film when the boy and his father are being questioned and threatened by the military, the father could have simply said, “Check my bag for the rabbit” and they would have both survived. Instead, the plot needed them to die and so decreased his IQ by 100 points.
Plots:
In 1944 Francoist Spain, an imaginative young girl meets a faun who tells her she’s a princess and that she must prove her worthiness by completing three dangerous tasks.
In 1944 Falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she’s a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.
Ofelia’s love of fairy tales is obvious from the beginning of El Laberinto del fauno. Set in the not so tranquil Spanish woodlands of World War Two, where a small band of anti-Falangist rebels are hiding out. This is where Ofelia and her pregnant mother have come to live, in the company of Capitán Vidal, Ofelia’s new stepfather and soon to be father of her half-brother. It is with the brutal, unforgiving and totalitarian idealist Capitán Vidal, and his Falangist troops, who must weed out these resistance fighters of the hills and woods, that Ofelia finds her release and distraction of the new world order and its warring factions and delves into the older, mysterious and enchanting world of fairies, faun’s and giant frogs. Beautiful, charming, graphic and deadly. El Laberinto del fauno.
Will you attempt the Pan’s Labyrinth Fetch Quest for a chance to meet Guillermo del Toro? Are you more excited for the Hall H reunion or the PARQ screening and party? Which moment or creature from the film has stayed with you most over the past 20 years? Share your thoughts in the comments or @me.
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