The Devil’s Backbone

802-poster
release date September 2 2001
studio 20th Century Fox
director Guillermo del Toro
writer Guillermo del Toro
starring Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
rating
R
tagline The living will always be more dangerous than the dead.
site sonyclassics.com/devilsbackbone/index.h
trailer 1 Trailer #1

Official Score:

Average User Rating:

  •

Synopsis

It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve), the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere- where a ghost roams the halls.

Official Review

“Que es un fantasma?” “What is a ghost?
A tragedy doomed to repeat itself again and again…?” …Read More

Images, Posters and Photos

Official Score: 4 / 5