Cronos (film)

Cronos
Cronos
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Guillermo del Toro
Written by	Guillermo del Toro
Produced by	Arthur H. Gorson; Bertha Navarro; Alejandro Springall; Bernard L. Nussbaumer
Starring	Federico Luppi; Ron Perlman; Claudio Brook; Margarita Isabel; Tamara Shanath;
Narrated by	Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Cinematography	Guillermo Navarro
Edited by	Raúl Dávalos
Music by	Javier Álvarez
Production; companies	Fondo de Fomento Cinematográfico; Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía; Universidad de Guadalajara; Iguana Producciones; Ventana Films
Distributed by	Prime Films S.L. (Spain); October Films; (United States)
Release dates	27 November 1992 (XXV Muestra Internacional de Cine); 17 May 1993 (Cannes); 3 December 1993 (México);
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Mexico
Languages	Spanish; English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$621,392

Cronos is a 1992 Mexican independent horror drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman. Cronos is del Toro's first feature film, and the first of several films on which he worked with Luppi and Perlman. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[5] A stand-alone sequel, We Are What We Are, was released in 2010, with the only connection being Daniel Giménez Cacho reprising his role as Tito the Coroner.^[6]

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