768: Eternal Clockwork Bugs

The Incomparable Mothership

Moisés Chiullán

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Guillermo del Toro’s career started small, with the small-scale vampire (sort of) horror (sort of?) movie “Cronos,” in which an old man finds a mechanical object containing a magical bug that gives him eternal life in the bad way. Meanwhile, young Ron Perlman hates his evil uncle but continues to do his bidding! It’s a fun 1992 throwback that is still recognizeably del Toro....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 768, May 2025.
0:10.2	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.4	This episode, we are revisiting another film by Guillermo del Toro.
0:17.4	The fact is, we watched Pan's Labyrinth early this year.
0:20.6	We had a good time. We started
0:22.2	to say maybe we could watch some other movies. Steve Lutz said something about I'm interested
0:26.0	in that chronos. And we decided to go back all the way to the start to the first film directed
0:30.5	by Guillermo del Toro. It is the lowish, I would say, budget Mexican independent horror movie.
0:37.4	It is, although you might call it a psychological thriller. Lowish, I would say, budget Mexican independent horror movie.
0:41.6	It is, although you might call it a psychological thriller.
0:44.2	I might call it that.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:46.6	Because it was not what I was expecting.
1:05.0	It is Kronos from 1992, joining me to talk about this movie in which a kindly old antiques dealer is bitten by a mysterious bug in a wind-up thing and becomes an immortal.
1:07.7	That's basically what happens.
1:09.3	Are these following wonderful people?
1:10.2	Tony Sidderas here.
1:11.6	Hello. Hello. Hello, nerds.
1:13.3	I'm here to watch another Giro Miltiltillow movie,
1:15.8	and I'm excited to be here talking about it with y'all.
1:19.0	And I've heard that you're a sucker for vampire movies.
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