Spain / Mexico,
2001, 106 min
Directed by:
Guillermo del ToroCinematography:
Guillermo NavarroComposer:
Javier NavarreteCast:
Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Irene Visedo, Junio Valverde, Miguel Ortiz, Javier Bódalo, Berta Ojea, Fernando Tielve, Andreas Muñoz (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
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. (Criterion)
(more)Soundtracks
L'Echine du Diable
Bande Originale
Label: Milan Records
Year: 2001
Country: France
Format: CD
Length: 01:05:34
Tracklist
1. | What Is A Fantasy? | Javier Navarrete | 02:58 |
2. | A Terrible Event | Javier Navarrete | 03:09 |
3. | Condemned To Repeat | Javier Navarrete | 04:13 |
4. | Again And Again | Javier Navarrete | 02:49 |
5. | A Moment Of Pain | Javier Navarrete | 02:22 |
6. | Quiza | Javier Navarrete | 04:23 |
7. | Something Dead | Javier Navarrete | 02:57 |
8. | Even Live Moments | Javier Navarrete | 02:51 |
9. | A Sense | Javier Navarrete | 04:31 |
10. | Suspended In Time | Javier Navarrete | 05:03 |
11. | A Blurred Picture | Javier Navarrete | 03:13 |
12. | An Insect Trapped In Amber | Javier Navarrete | 03:42 |
13. | A Fantasy | Javier Navarrete | 05:49 |
14. | This Is Me | Javier Navarrete | 02:53 |
15. | "Besos Frios" - Raquel Meller | 02:29 | |
16. | "Una Lagrima" - Carlos Gardel | 02:41 | |
17. | "Recordar" - Imperio Argentina & Manolo Russell | 03:02 | |
18. | "Presumidos" - Carmelita Ambert | 03:18 | |
19. | "Yo No Se Que Me Han Hecho Tus Ojos" - Carlos Gardel | 03:11 |