Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Devil’s Backbone
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 30, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Ghostly apparitions haunt a rural orphanage in The Devil's Backbone.
The 2001 horror film The Devil’s Backbone is probably the most personal film ever made by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic), along with being one of his most frightening and emotionally layered.
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy (Fernando Tielve) who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
The ever-adept Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Presented in Spanish with English subtitles, the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Ghostly apparitions haunt a rural orphanage in The Devil's Backbone.
The 2001 horror film The Devil’s Backbone is probably the most personal film ever made by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic), along with being one of his most frightening and emotionally layered.
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy (Fernando Tielve) who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
The ever-adept Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Presented in Spanish with English subtitles, the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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