The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)
by Guillermo del Toro
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Actor: ??igo Garc?s, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Marisa ParedesDirector: Guillermo del Toro
Brand: Sony
Producer: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Producer: Agust?n Almod?var
Producer: Bertha Navarro
Producer: Michel Ruben
Writer: Antonio Trashorras
Writer: David Mu?oz
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Clever in places, surprising
Summary: 4 Stars
Some amazing performances in this film and we really don't know what's going on until the last minute, but the senior actors and the children were terrific, the villain chillingly charming.
The special effects could be a bit silly looking at times, and the boy we think is the villain gets redeemed. I came to this after Pan's Labyrinth, and liked them both for different reasons.
The settings in both were remarkable, but the bleakness and desolation of the desert and mountains and the bomb in the middle of the courtyard was just perfect.
Summary of The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/25/2006 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: RSeething 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
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