THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001) has Criterion spine number 666 😅 🌟
One of the most personal films by Guillermo del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish mélange that, like his later Pan’s Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
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Del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone" had been on my watchlist for years. Finally available on Prime and I was not disappointed. A wonderfully quiet, profound & heartbreaking #horror drama that uses the orphanage as a microcosm to draw a strong metaphor for the Spanish Civil War & Franco's regime. Good and evil are skilfully juxtaposed here, showing how easy it is to switch to the opposite side when circumstances (such as war) force the individual to do so. Strong.
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