Cronos (1993), directed by Guillermo del Toro, Criterion remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English subtitles for Spanish audio.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 000 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles for Spanish dialogue and English subtitles for Spanish parts of commentary track OCRed, proofed and corrected.

Note : Guillermo del Toro's first film is something of an odd duck, a Mexico-US coproduction set in a near future Mexico City where streetsigns are in Spanish, English, Russian, Arabic and Chinese, and everything seems a little off. All of del Toro's obsessions are on display, though, ancient texts, clockwork, insects, clockwork that looks like insects, body horror, vampirism, innocent children caught up in very adult evil, and two of his favorite actors, Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Federico Luppi (The Devil's Backbone). It's a story of the alchemical search for eternal life gone awry, with an ancient invention for extending the users' life also turning them into vampires. It's inventive and original, if not entirely steady and mature yet in terms of dialogue and some plot choices, but well worth watching for del Toro fans.

This Criterion version isn't really all that great, slightly fuzzy and low detail, although contrast is good and it's not too grainy. Could definitely have done with a new remaster, though, and maybe a 5.1 upmix. The commentary tracks are interesting, especially del Toro's.

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