FREE: The Devil's Backbone~ A Film By Guillermo del Toro

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Movie is in good condition.

Number of discs: 1

Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language: Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: English

ABOUT:
Seething passions, wandering ghosts, and an unexploded bomb fill this beautifully filmed tale of war and suspense. Though The Devil's Backbone was advertised as a horror movie in the States, it's really more of a drama that happens to have ghosts in it. During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all. The movie is full of excellent performances, especially by Marisa Paredes as the gruff-but-kind headmistress, Eduardo Noriega as the handyman with secrets to keep, and Federico Luppi as the benevolent professor who likes to keep deformed fetuses in jars. A rich, satisfying drama with some good, spooky fun thrown in. --Ali Davis

From The New Yorker
The Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's supernatural melodrama takes place against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, in a poverty-stricken orphanage, where the ghost of a young boy resides. The movie overreaches when it attempts to be a political allegory but becomes hauntingly atmospheric as it settles down and simplifies its intentions. Del Toro's elegant pacing and gothic touches imbue the proceedings with a cool mystery. In Spanish. -Bruce Diones

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