10 Most Powerful Items In Horror Movie History
2. The Device - Cronos
The vampire legend has been taken in just about every direction in cinema since its inception, but none have quite the charm and strangeness of Guillermo del Toro's Cronos. The titular device is that of a weird golden scarab, a mechanical device that has been crafted by an alchemist to grant the user youth, vitality, and a healthy appetite for blood.
But not only that - it essentially makes the user indestructible. Protagonist Gris is downed in the boot of a sunken car, stabbed, beaten, and eventually throws himself off a building, each time reviving when he should have faced certain death. Imbibed with the power of the device, Gris is a vampire in all but name, avoiding the sun and thirsting for the red stuff throughout the movie in exchange for becoming this all powerful being.
In the wrong hands, the device of Cronos could change the face of the world as we know it, or at the very least, cause an uprising in vampiric shenanigans which would be almost impossible to eradicate. Good thing it's easy enough to stamp on, I guess.