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The Devil's Backbone (Spanish: El espinazo del diablo) is a 2001 gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro, David Muñoz, and Antonio Trashorras. Set in Spain , 1939, during the final year of the Spanish Civil War , the film follows a boy who is left in an orphanage operated by Republican loyalists and haunted ...
Apr 20, 2001 · 84 Photos. Drama Horror Thriller. After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover. Director. Guillermo del Toro.
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Nov 21, 2001 · Creepily atmospheric and haunting, The Devil's Backbone is both a potent ghost story and an intelligent political allegory. Read Critics Reviews
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Dec 21, 2001 · Del Toro is attracted by the horror genre, but not in thrall to it. He uses the golden beetle, the mimic insects, the school ghost, not as his subjects but as the devices that test the souls of his characters.
Guillermo del Toro’s historical thriller and supernatural horror film The Devil’s Backbone is clearly the work of a film artist with an immense imagination. But according to the writer-director, it was also inspired by a real-life experience that…
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Jul 30, 2013 · Jul 30, 2013. T alking to me about the vibrant darkness of his distinctive worldview back in 2006, Mexican maestro Guillermo del Toro cited a phrase from “The Skins of the Fathers,” a short story by Clive Barker, the British writer turned filmmaker who helped to refresh and redefine the horror genre in the 1980s.
Apr 20, 2021 · By Jim Vorel | April 20, 2021 | 9:45am. Movies Features horror movies. The precise moment in which The Devil’s Backbone takes place is utterly instrumental to the telling of Guillermo del...
