The Devil's Backbone

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Genre: Drama, Horror

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Runtime: 106 mins

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Rated: R

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Release Date: 2001

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Countries: Mexico, Spain

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Languages: Spanish

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DIRECTED BY:

Guillermo del Toro

WRITTEN BY:

Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Munoz

CAST INCLUDES:

Eduardo Noriega, Irene Visedo, Federico Luppi, Marisa Paredes, Fernando Tielve

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

An elegant gothic tale of a haunted orphanage and the dark secrets that lie within the walls, two-time Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s (PAN’S LABYRINTH, THE SHAPE OF WATER) iconic eerie beauty is ever-present in “The Devil’s Backbone”. With haunting performances from a young Fernando Tielve (PAN’S LABYRINTH, GOYA’S GHOSTS) and a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, this film is sure to send chills down your spine. New York Times raves, "Mr. del Toro provokes your screams and shudders, but he also earns your tears."

SYNOPSIS

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 that he must uncover.

The Devil's Backbone

|

Genre: Drama, Horror

|

Runtime: 106 mins

|

Rated: R

|

Release Date: 2001

|

Countries: Mexico, Spain

|

Languages: Spanish

|

DIRECTED BY

Guillermo del Toro

WRITTEN BY

Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Munoz

CAST INCLUDES

Eduardo Noriega, Irene Visedo, Federico Luppi, Marisa Paredes, Fernando Tielve

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

An elegant gothic tale of a haunted orphanage and the dark secrets that lie within the walls, two-time Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s (PAN’S LABYRINTH, THE SHAPE OF WATER) iconic eerie beauty is ever-present in “The Devil’s Backbone”. With haunting performances from a young Fernando Tielve (PAN’S LABYRINTH, GOYA’S GHOSTS) and a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, this film is sure to send chills down your spine. New York Times raves, "Mr. del Toro provokes your screams and shudders, but he also earns your tears."

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 that he must uncover.

"Mr. del Toro provokes your screams and shudders, but he also earns your tears."

New York Times

"It's a horror flick, and a creepily good one, that also functions as an allegory of the war that still haunts Spain seven decades later."

Wall Street Journal

"The work of a great stylist with a uniquely disturbing attraction to, and vision of, the frontier between life and death."

Sight & Sound

Toronto International Film Festival

2001

Telluride Film Festival

2001

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