"Many of you will die."
THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO) (2001)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Lovely, poetic ghost story from the great Guillermo del Toro. Set in an orphanage during the last days of the Spanish Civil War, this beautifully crafted film has several good creepy scenes but is, ultimately, more interested in moving us than delivering scares. Guillermo Navarro's cinematography is outstanding whether he's capturing the harsh, bright desert landscape or the eerie Gothic interiors of the crumbling institution. I don't want to give away much of the plot, but I will say, in this film del Toro and his team give us one of cinema's great ghosts in Santi, a forlorn figure of great pathos
A really wonderful movie.
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