InfluenceMEDIUM
Added by · 15 September 2026

The influence
Alice in Wonderland
Book · 1865

The work it shaped
El laberinto del fauno Pan's Labyrinth
Film · 2006
Del Toro has spoken about Carroll and Victorian fairy tale illustration as sources, and Ofelia's underworld runs on Wonderland's logic: three tasks with rules stated precisely and then broken, a warning about eating what is on the table, and creatures who are neither friendly nor hostile but simply indifferent to a child's distress. The difference is what sits on the other side. Alice wakes up, and del Toro puts a fascist captain in the room instead.
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