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El espinazo del diablo (2001)
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20 April 2001 (Spain)
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The living will always be more dangerous than the dead. more
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It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists...
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6 wins
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7 nominations
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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
(From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)
Updated: Eugenio Mira shooting baroque retro-futuristic thriller Agnosia
(From QuietEarth. 5 November 2009, 2:26 PM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)
Updated: Eugenio Mira shooting baroque retro-futuristic thriller Agnosia
(From QuietEarth. 5 November 2009, 2:26 PM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Marisa Paredes | ... | Carmen |
 | Eduardo Noriega | ... | Jacinto |
 | Federico Luppi | ... | Dr. Casares |
| Fernando Tielve | ... | Carlos |
| Íñigo Garcés | ... | Jaime |
 | Irene Visedo | ... | Conchita |
| José Manuel Lorenzo | ... | Marcelo |
| Francisco Maestre | ... | El Puerco (as Paco Maestre) |
| Junio Valverde | ... | Santi |
| Berta Ojea | ... | Alma |
| Adrián Lamana | ... | Gálvez |
| Daniel Esparza | ... | Marcos |
| Miguel Ortiz | ||
 | Juan Carlos Vellido | ||
| Javier Bódalo | ... | Búho (as Javier González Madrigal) |
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Also Known As:
The Devil's Backbone (Europe: English title) (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.
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106 min | Australia:108 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:16 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:R (Ontario) |
Chile:14 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Japan:PG-12 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Finland:K-15
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Was strongly inspired by the director's personal memories, especially his relationship with his uncle, who supposedly came back as a ghost.
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Besos Frios
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This is not just an incredibly effective ghost story, but a cinematic masterpiece. Like his "Cronos," Del Toro has created a rich horror fable that is driven by 3-dimensional characters involved in a fascinating plot that leads to a wholly satisfying ending. With many developments along the way that shock, move, and thrill. And of course the political allegory and reality of the film, the Spanish Civil War, all the orphan boys of noble Loyalist fighters fighting their own war against a truly horrifying fascist villain, the young and handsome Jacinto, who is not without a sad ghost in his own past that feeds his destructiveness.
Del Toro is one of the most intelligent and humane directors working today, not something usually said about auteur in the horror genre. I have not seen "Hellboy" but think less of his US endeavors than these two Spanish masterworks...