Title:
The devil's backbone El espinazo del diablo
Author:
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964- , screenwriter, film director.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
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.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: Disc 1: Guillermo del Toro introduction; Commentary featuring writer-director Guillermo del Toro; Trailer. Bonus disc (designated 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.
Language:
Spanish
Reading Level:
Rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781604657432
UPC:
715515107815
Format :
DVD
