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Having been so moved by Pan's Labyrinth, I finally watched The Spirit of the Beehive tonight. While there are elements that clearly influenced del Toro, this film is an entirely different, but no less haunting, monster. Slow and languorous, but beautiful and dreamy, The Spirit of the Beehive tells the story of a little girl in post-war Spain.
If anyone here has seen this movie, I'd love to talk about it. I'm not going to bother with spoilers - I went into it blind, so I'll just give it an enigmatic "thumbs-up", though I should warn iSm that it's in Spanish with subtitles. Also, it's an early-1970s "arthouse" flick, so don't expect a wham-bam narrative line that is de rigueur nowadays.
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