THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE-2001-This supernatural ghost story from Spain is great! After his father is killed in The Spanish Civil War, a young boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve) goes to an orphanage run by the kindly Prof. Casares (Fererico Luppi: he starred in John Sayles’ MEN WITH GUNS) and his unfaithful one legged wife. They also have a small cache of gold that the slimy caretaker (Edvardo Noriega) is after. Besides the usual peer pressure and bullying the orphanage seems to be haunted by the spirit of a dead boy.
Director Guillermo del Toro (CRONOS, MIMIC, HELLBOY) doesn’t allow the story to get lost in visual effects and creates some mesmerizing scenes.
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