The Devil's Backbone Comments

  • Augustus 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    I said it was Del Toro's best film, would anyone believe it? Bloody straight parable, an eternal topic of the Spanish Civil...

  • Giles 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Compared with Pan Shenlai, although it is a little less delicate and beautiful, the characters are more three-dimensional. The terrifying atmosphere at the beginning is well done, so the emotional progression from fear of ghosts to identification with the audience like the protagonist is especially well done. The main line of the whole story does not depict war too much, but war is the biggest ghost floating in the story. Also, the name "Ghost Boys Academy" is translated like an old B-grade...

  • Wallace 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    The first time I heard about this movie was when I was wandering around in the rental disc stores in the streets. As a result, the quality of the rented discs was too bad and I didn’t see it. It’s been so many years in a blink of an eye. It hardened a little bit, but it turned out to be the same as when I watched Pan Shen's Labyrinth eight years ago. The whole person is not well... If Brother Mo continues to lose like this, I don't dare to watch Hongfeng anymore...

  • Kameron 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    The fantasy world of spinning tops, dreams and reality. The script level is relatively weak, and it is essentially a children's film. The only surprise is that it is very similar to a Liaozhai story. In short, it is similar to ancient Chinese ghost stories. Violent pornography is available, and the visual level is also done enough, low-cost masterpiece. I have been thinking about it since I was at...

  • Lizzie 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Barely two points. I didn't know what I was playing for the first hour, and then I found out: Isn't this still a "Devil's Silver Claw"-style treasure hunt? One copy of Treasure Island is enough for Del Toro to digest for ten years. People in their thirties are still nourished by children's literature, and I don't know whether to envy or pity Del Toro. An hour ago, I explained the background, the orphanage during the Spanish Civil War, the unexploded aerial bomb on the playground, and the...

  • Mustafa 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    I watched the dubbed version.... Some of the words are somewhat inaccurate, and it is indeed called the previous work of "Pan God". "It's not ghosts that eat people, but people, people's desires. Save the...

  • Trystan 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Strictly speaking, this is not a horror movie, but it is definitely a human...

  • Alden 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Guillermo del Toro's video is super saturated, I love...

  • Margaretta 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    It is really a reenactment of the history of the Spanish Civil War through a commercial type film. The president is the old Spain, the deceased ex-husband is the first republic, and Casares is the government of the second republic at that time. Poetry and theory are not fundamental. The situation changed. In the film, his impotence was powerless in the face of the aphrodisiac of fascism, so there was Jacinto's copulation with the dean, and finally the war broke out. The bomb that never...

  • Hyman 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Guillermo del Toro is a good...

Extended Reading
  • Dina 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    Revolutionary film

    In the early works directed by Pan Shen Maze and HELL BOY, it seems that this fat man began to sing the proletarian revolution with a supernatural skin as soon as he debuted. Even if it is a ghost film, I don’t forget to criticize feudal superstition. The most brilliant detail is the deformed baby...

  • Adah 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    "Ghost Children's Courtyard": What is a ghost?

    Spanish horror films are always deep, connotative, and delicate. This is true of "Lonely Castle" and "Julia's Eyes", and so is "Ghost House". In fact, this film was produced before the first two films, and it was even a tribute to "Lonely Castle". Adding the dual elements of history and humanity to...

The Devil's Backbone quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Santi: Many of you will die.

    Santi: [to Carlos touching his face] Bring Jacinto To Me

  • [last lines]

    Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]

    [voice over narration]

    Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.

    [last lines]

    Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]

    [narrating from beyond the grave]

    Casares: A Ghost

    [last to leave is Carlos looking back]

    Casares: That Is What I Am

    [Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]