Cronos

“It is a personal, profound philosophical rumination on the choices unconditional love demands when faced with the facets of our nature we cannot control—sexual obsession, hunger, mortality. It forces us to ask where we draw the line on our actions.   A vampire film where the word vampire is never used, Cronos presents a merciless world where mercy survives in the face of uncontrollable appetite but only at a grave cost. The characters face hard choices and are pushed to ever more extreme actions. All of it unfolds in a fantasy realm that blends the Jalisco of Guillermo’s youth with the Grand Guignol world he soaked up from books and films.” (Toro & Zicree 2013)

Some of the last remnants of the original Cronos notes From Del Toro's Diary. 

The golden scarab mechanism containing the venom of eternal life .

Large scale model of the scarab to enable the inner workings of the device to be featured in the film.