The Devil’s Backbone
One of the most personal films by Guillermo del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish mélange that, like his later Pan’s Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro and director of photography Guillermo Navarro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Del Toro
- Video introduction by Del Toro from 2010
- New and archival interviews with Del Toro about the creation of his film
- ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary
- Interactive director’s notebook
- Four deleted scenes, with commentary by del Toro
- New interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the film’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War
- Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film
- Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation by del Toro
- PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Kermode
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro and director of photography Guillermo Navarro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Del Toro
- Video introduction by Del Toro from 2010
- New and archival interviews with Del Toro about the creation of his film
- ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary
- Interactive director’s notebook
- Four deleted scenes, with commentary by del Toro
- New interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the film’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War
- Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film
- Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation by del Toro
- PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Kermode
Cast
- Marisa Paredes
- Carmen
- Eduardo Noriega
- Jacinto
- Federico Luppi
- Dr. Casares
- Fernando Tielve
- Carlos
- Íñigo Garcés
- Jaime
- Irene Visedo
- Conchita
- José Manuel Lorenzo
- Marcelo
- Paco Maestre
- The Pig
- Junio Valverde
- Santi
- Berta Ojea
- Alma
- Adrian Lamana
- Gálvez
- Daniel Esparza
- Marcos
- Javier González Madrigal
- Owl
- Victor Barroso
- Luis
Credits
- Director
- Guillermo del Toro
- Executive producers
- Agustín Almodóvar
- Executive producers
- Bertha Navarro
- Producer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Director of production
- Esther García
- Director of photography
- Guillermo Navarro
- Coproducer
- Rosa Bosch
- Associate producer
- Michel Ruben
- Written by
- Guillermo del Toro
- Written by
- Antonio Trashorras
- Written by
- David Muñoz
- Music
- Javier Navarrete
- Art director
- César Macarrón
- Editor
- Luis de la Madrid
- Camera operator
- Joaquín Manchado
- Casting
- Sara Bilbatua
- Sound
- Miguel Rejas
- Sound design
- Salvador Mayolas
- Special mechanical effects
- Reyes Abades
- Special makeup effects
- DDT
- Special makeup effects supervisors
- David Martí
- Special makeup effects supervisors
- Montse Ribé
- Special digital effects
- Telson
- Makeup
- Jorge Hernández
- Hairdresser
- Fermín Galán
- Costumes
- José Vico
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