Jul 10, 2020 · The film's title refers to the medical condition of spina bifida. The doctor of the orphanage keeps a collection of jars with preserved infants dead from spina bifida: hence the …

Jul 19, 2002 · Casares warns of the vagaries of superstition telling how they sell the embalming fluid of the ‘child’ with the ‘devil’s backbone’ to gullible townspeople as a curative for various …

Sep 20, 2013 · “This is The Devil’s Backbone the way the devil intended it to be seen,” says director Guillermo del Toro in his introduction to the Criterion Collection release of his weighty, …

Nov 11, 2010 · “The Devil’s Backbone” opens with the image of a massive bomb falling into the courtyard of a lonely desert orphanage. This bomb, which fails to actually explode, is the …

Sep 13, 2013 · Probably because of Jacinto - the deformed grownup kid. Although the movie was very straightforward most of the time, so I wouldn't be surprised it is just a cool name for the …

Nov 30, 2021 · The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) is a Spanish ghost film with a backdrop of the Spanish civil war. The war is evident instantly, with a bombing.

In The Devil's Backbone, what does Santi's ghost tell Carlos he wants? In The Devil's Backbone, what was Jacinto trying to steal from the orphanage?

Dec 21, 2001 · “The Devil’s Backbone,” a mournful and beautiful new ghost story by Guillermo del Toro, understands that most ghosts are sad, and are attempting not to frighten us but to …

Apr 20, 2021 · From the moment that Carlos is unceremoniously dumped into the orphanage’s dust-choked courtyard, The Devil’s Backbone distinguishes itself in particular through the …

May 20, 2017 · One of the most poignant ghost story to have embraced the war genre, The Devil’s Backbone is a sad and powerful portrait of a desolate orphanage in the middle of nowhere, …

After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely...

Within del Toro’s La espinaza del diablo or The Devil’s Backbone, the biggest metaphor is the orphanage itself, which represents the country of Spain during its civil war, and the people in …

Guillermo del Toro’s the Devil’s Backbone thrives as a horror film but if we peel back the layers it can be considered a scathing yet respectful look at the Spanish Civil War. Del Toro stresses …

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 …

Sep 24, 2001 · With The Devil’s Backbone, del Toro pulls an Amenábar by dishing out sophisticated war commentary with bone-chilling dread. A bomb is dropped from the skies …

After his father dies in combat during the last months of the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is brought to an isolated orphanage in 1939.