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The idea of the faun derived from del Toro’s repetitive childhood lucid dreams. Each midnight del Toro would awake at midnight and watch a faun emerge from behind the grandfather’s clock in his bedroom. The faun in the film is a very suspicious creature which gives both the impression of trustworthiness and of a being one should never confide in.

The works del Toro drew upon for inspiration included: Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Ficciones’; Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’; Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books; Arthur Machen’s ‘The Great God Pan’; and Francisco Goya’s works. In 2004 del Toro said: “Pan is an original story. Some of my favourite writers have explored the figure of the god Pan and the symbol of the labyrinth. These are things that I find very compelling and I am trying to mix them and play with them”.