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Devil's Backbone = El espinazo del diablo
Title
Devil's Backbone = El espinazo del diablo Agustín y Pedro Almodóvar presentan ; una producción El Deseo S.A., Tequila Gang ; una película de Guillermo del Toro ; guión, Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz ; productore, Agustín Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro ; dirección, Guillermo del Toro.
ISBN
9781604657425
1604657421
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special ed.
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: new 2k digital film restoration, approved by director Guillermo del Toro ; 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). Insert includes an essay by critic Mark Kermode.
Editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; director of photography, Guillermo Navarro.
Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
El espinazo del diablo
Title on container: Devil's backbone
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Spanish
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 666
Credits
Editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; director of photography, Guillermo Navarro.
Cast
Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Paco Maestre.
System details note
Blu-ray, 16:9 widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
Videorecording number
CC2279BD The Criterion Collection
CC2686BD-2 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Historical films.
History.
Horror films.
War films.
Historical films.
War films.
Horror films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Also listed under
Deseo, S.A.
Tequila Gang (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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