That is the question.

When George Lucas decides to release STAR WARS on Blu-ray, you know and I know, that you are going buy it…yet, AGAIN!

For me, it'll be my gazillionth copy of that film. Beta, VHS, Laser Disc, DVD...Arrrgh!!!

You know I’ve gotta see Slave Leia in all her glory and Jar Jar in all his….no, waitaminute… hesa still needsa to die!

Well boys and girls, I’ve got a film for you that is well worth the double dip: It is Guillermo del Toro’s CRONOS [view a sample clip].

This time around, it is given a well-deserved Criterion Collection treatment.

Out of print and harder to find than the male genitalia in Disney’s The Little Mermaid one-sheet poster, Del Toro’s first film, CRONOS, is remastered and transferred for the first time in HD, and Criterion does not disappoint here. The disc is lush, the colors and sound POP! It is truly the way del Toro intended it to be viewed. [In fact, Del Toro personally supervised the re-mastering himself, along with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro.]

For those of you few who haven’t seen it (shame on YOU) here is a quick synopsis:

CRONOS is a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (Ron Perlman).

If the beautiful remaster and transfer were not enough…It is the supplemental material that make this disc, KING!

First off, you get the rarely seen, unreleased 1987 del Toro film, GEOMETRIA, remastered for this exquisite edition with new music provided by Warner Brothers' animation composer, Christopher Drake.


*Fun Fact* Not only is del Toro’s mother, Guadalupe, one of the stars in the short, but del Toro himself provides ALL the voices in Italian.

And the extras keep coming. There are all new interviews with del Toro, star Ron Perlman, Guillermo Navarro, and star Ferderico Luppi.