The devil's backbone = El espinazo del diablo

The devil's backbone El espinazo del diablo

DVD - 2013

The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.

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Subjects
Haunted places > Spain > Drama.
Orphanages > Spain > Drama.
Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Drama.
Horror films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Horror films
Feature films
Foreign films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection [2013]
Language
Spanish
English
Corporate Authors
Deseo, S.A, Tequila Gang (Firm)
Corporate Authors
Deseo, S.A (production company), Tequila Gang (Firm)
Other Authors
Guillermo del Toro, 1964- (screenwriter), Agustin Almodóvar (film producer), Pedro Almodóvar (actor), Antonio Trashorras (Interviewer), David Muñoz, 1968- (artist), Bertha Navarro (interviewee), Marisa Paredes, 1946-, Eduardo Noriega, 1973-, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, 1978-, José Manuel Lorenzo, 1959-, Francisco Maestre, Javier Soto, 1969-, Carlos Giménez, 1941-, Sebastiaan Faber, 1969-
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: Disc 1: Guillermo del Toro introduction; Commentary featuring writer-director Guillermo del Toro; Trailer. Disc 2: Summoning spirits (interview with Guillermo del Toro); ¿Que es un fantasma? (2004 making-of documentary); Spanish gothic (2010 interview with writer-director Guillermo del Toro conducted by Javier Soto); Director's notebook (interactive gallery includes preparatory drawings and concepts); Designing The devil's backbone (interview with the filmmaker about the initial designs and prosthetics for the characters, effects, and art direction); Deleted scenes; Sketch, storyboard, screen (compares del Toro's thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez's storyboards with the final film); A war of values (new interview with Sebastiaan Faber about the film's depiction of the Spanish Civil War).
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
Playing Time
01:48:00
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
Audience
Rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
Production Credits
Editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; director of photography, Guillermo Navarro.
ISBN
9781604657432
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