DramaHorrorThriller

El espinazo del diablo

2001
★ 7.3 / 10
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 wh...
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Reviews
★★★★★
I'm a massive fan of the horror genre, but I don't like ghost stories. To me, ghost stories are a poor manifestation of the genre. It's not the idea of ghosts that's the problem, it's the way the stories are presented; often dull, slow moving and uninteresting...
★★★★★
The Devil's Backbone is a good drama-horror film about a kid that sent to orphanage and he saw a ghost. It's overall good drama, not so much about the mystery. There's one thing that really bothers me. It doesn't have to be a horror film. The plot would've wor...
★★★★★
A classy Hispanic horror movie finely written by Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz, and Guillermo Del Toro himself. Set late Spanish Civil War,1936-1939, after his Republican dad dies in battle , 10-year-old Carlos : Fernando Tielve, is left at a desert orphanag...
★★★★★
THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (El Espinazo del Diablo) Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Sound format: Dolby Digital During the Spanish Civil War, a young orphan boy (Fernando Tielve) is sent to an isolated boarding school where he encounters the ghost of a murdered child (Junio...
★★★★★
THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE is a Spanish language supernatural thriller. It consists of a haunted school for orphaned boys. Now, in an American film that would be all you get, a ghost running around scaring the young inhabitants of the gloomy building. That's it, and...
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