Cronos, 1993

Opening credits start with a church bell or a gong. Voice over of a back story. Story begins of 1536 after the inquisition - an alchemist searches for a devise that will give him eternal life - Cronos device. 400 years later in 1937 a vault in the building collapses and the alchemist was found.  The story was not told to the public and images shown of a man hanging upside down and his blood being drained out of him. The Cronos device was never found.

Mexico. A family eating breakfast. A little girl and her mother and grandfather. Grandfather and girl love eachother, the mother is stern with daughter. The granfather and and girl work at an antiques shop. A strange man comes in and looks at things and then when adked if he needs anything goes out. He was looking at statues. December 28th.
Once of the statues the man was looking at had an eye missing. The girls's name is aurora. Cockroaches come out of the cockroaches ete. It is assumed that the statue came from the ruins of the callapsed building. It is hallow and the old man lifts it off it's base and reaches in to pull out the cronos devise wrapped in a cloth. The cronos looks like a golden egg with small markings on it.

A man - ron perlman - ansers the phone and is given information about something he had been looking for. He goes looking for a man in a facroty. He enters a room deliverying a dinner tray and has put on a facemak and boots against infection and such. ron tells the man that the archabgel is garbage, but the man is ertain it is not garbage. Ron goes to pick up the egg and plays tricks with the daughter and asks which nose is better.

the granfather tells the girl that finding the god egg only happens once in a lifetime, then winds it and is cut on the hands ans these claws come out of it.

The old man goes to a woman that teaches dance. She clans his cuts and finds a metal filing in his hands. Calls it a stinger of a bee.

The old man wakes in the night thirsy and dringks a jug of water. He sees a plate with some meat on it in the fridge and looks loningly at it. Doesn't eat it and closes the door. Then he claws at his bandage and itches under it. He is in pain.

The girl is in bed with a green light under the covers. She hears the old man downstairs. He takes out the cronos and winds it again and it grabs onto his hand again. . He says an our father. A rod comes out of the egg and dips into his hand and sucks blood out. He is in extasy. the girls sees and the old man says he is ok.

Morning and the old man is looking in a mirror and has shaved his moustache. His wife says he is a lot younger looking.

He goes to his shop and finds the lock cut and all things scattered inside. Ransacked.  He finds a laminated card inside and it is for the factory where ron works. It says that they are open all night.

Old man, mr. Gris, goes to the factory. He finds the man who tells of how he has found the manuscrips of the alchemist and tells of the insect that lives inside the cronos, like the resurection of jesus. Gris gives the man a box with locks in it, not the cronos.

Ron tells gris that he may have the cronos for now, but they have the instructions on how to use it. . It must be used very specially.

Gris comes home and see that the cronos is gone and understands that aurora has it. He goes to her and tells how her father did the same thing to his cigarettes. She hid the cronos in a stuffed bear.

Gris uses it again on his chest. He has almost no marks on his chest after, but there is a sticky something. They go to New years ball. Aurora looks on and is not happy. Gris sees a man with blood coming off his mouth or nose and follows him to the bathroom - to get a drink. Gris tries to pool all the blood together, but a man comes out of the bathroom and washes it up. Gris then licks it off the bathroom floor. A man kicks him in the head.

New years! Gris is not at the party with wife and aurora. He is in a car with ron on the edge of the city. Ron starts to beat Gris and ask about it since his uncle the dying man won't leave him alone. Ron beats teh man and Gris wants Ron to end it, but Ron says he will do so when he pleases. He puts the old man in his car and pushes it off the cliff.

Inner dialoge gris. He says he is dying and alone and in pain, but can take a lot more than this. He remembers aurora.

Aurora in her room.

the morgue - Gris is being sown up for burial, but then it is decided that Gris wil be cremated.

Uncle and ron. Ron is beaten sicne he didin't check or keep from hurtin the old man's heart. Soemthing in the heart is important.

The old man's wake. Ron shows up and cheks his heart and if breathing as holds close his nose. The casket is cremates, but Gris is not in it by the end. Ron goes to check and sees it burning.

Gris is outside and cold and finds a newspaper and reads about his death. His name is Jesus Gris.

Gris calls his wife, but she hangs up at hearing just her name. Aurora hears also. Gris walks the streets in the rain. Gris goes home and Aurora opens teh door to him and brings him  a towel. He then lives in her attick. His closes are on backward. He attackes the cronos to his hand. sunlight comes through the ceiling and burns Gris with smke immediately. Aurora prpares a trunk  for him for the day.
He wakes and opens the trunk and writes mercedes a letter about going to finish unffinshed business and hopes to find her welcoming him back despite his looks. Aurora will give her the letter.

Gris goes to the factory. Aurora follows him with the green light stick and bear with cronos in it. They go to the top floor where the man sleeps. Gris wants to know why he is that way if he is to be.


The unlce wakes and tells that he ate the missing pages and tells gris to peal off his old skin. Gris tells that he has been reborn. Gris wants the answer to the riddle. Uncle tells that it is blood. Uncle tells that there is a way out and that he nees the cronos and Gris is about to give it when Uncle stabs him. Aurora saves him before the stab to the heart. Ron had been called and was about to go up. Gris tells Aurora to go, but then sees the blood and Gris starts to drink the blood from Uncles's neck Aurora watches, but ron shows up. and they grab their stuff and run.

Ron comes up and sees the uncle on the ground and the puddle of blood. ron laughs and says that everything is his and the uncle calls to him, but ron breaks his neck.

Gris hits Ron in the face and they go on the roof. Ron follows. Gris puts Auroa on the sign above the factory - neon sign. and she then clims down from there. ron and gris prepare to fight. Ron has a metal pole. Gris his fists. Ron beats Gris with the pole and kicks him.

Gris calls Auroa his angel.

Gris tells Ron that Ron has more to lose and that for him it is just pain. Gris grabs ron and jumps off the bilding. Aurora meets him at the bottom and put the cronos on his chest and Gris gets up. He has metal and glass sticking out of him. He pulls off his old skin. he sees that A has a cut on her hand and holds her.. she calls out to him "Grandfather and he yells NO and pulls the cronos off him and smashes it with a rock and he begins to die.

he recites" I am jesus Gris...JEsus Gris" and repeats it three times. He then lays down to die and is very pale skinned. Aurora lays on his chest. They are in her bed at home. Mercedes is there too. The happy famuly again. Fade out white.