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Plot: After Carlos — a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War — arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Our Take: Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth always felt to me like two sides of the same coin. Both films feature young protagonists at the end of the Spanish Civil War, but where Pan's Labyrinth leaned into its fantastical elements, The Devil's Backbone is a straight up ghost story. Genuinely scary and as emotionally resonant as his best work. — James
Plot: After Carlos — a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War — arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Our Take: Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth always felt to me like two sides of the same coin. Both films feature young protagonists at the end of the Spanish Civil War, but where Pan's Labyrinth leaned into its fantastical elements, The Devil's Backbone is a straight up ghost story. Genuinely scary and as emotionally resonant as his best work. — James
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TitlesThe Devil's Backbone