The Devil's Backbone

And this one-

The Devil's Backbone is another one.

Yeah, yeah.

But very, very hard to watch.

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it helped that he had Cronos and Devil's Backbone.

Yes.

Yes.

Mm-hmm

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Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and then there's apparently a third one he wants to do.

Mm-hmm.

Because as a period I'm familiar with his career, he first started breaking into Hollywood to film Mimic back in the 1990s, but was interfered with the studios and wasn't able to make the film he wanted to.

He's long been a popular director, making such brilliant films as The Devil's Backbone and Kronos.

But he never was able to break into Hollywood until Blade II, which was both a financial and critical success, and showed Hollywood, hey, this guy can make movies that are both cool-looking and make money.

And that was able to give Guillermo del Toro the pull to finally make Hellboy, which, of course, any comic fan would absolutely love, bringing Hellboy up the big screen, an indie character.

My number five

is another Children Are Scary movie and directed by one of the producers of The Orphanage, and that is The Devil's Backbone, which is Guillermo del Toro's 2001 film about an orphanage that is during the Spanish Civil War, which is a concept that he comes back to multiple times.

This movie is so viscerally dark and And gets darker with literally everything that happens.

But also feels like, for those who don't know, del Toro is one of my favorite filmmakers.

The English language remake from Matt Reeves, who did this as well.

But the cast of this is incredible.

They did an amazing job of casting these two kids and, and making this but yeah so i watched this in the devil's backbone back-to-back weeks in film club in college and that was such a cool experience for me as somebody horror was not my thing i'm a big baby and i did not watch a lot of horror movies at that point but this was one of those instances where this really opened my eyes to like what horror could be

So this was also on my list like proper so there's this would be like in my number four So I'll choose a different one but to this movie specifically No, this is a masterpiece like this is I I watched it.

But the real star of this movie is Guillermo del Toro, who really gets to show off his director prowess because as people who aren't familiar with his career, he first really broke into Hollywood with the film Mimic back in the 1990s, but was interfered with the studios and wasn't able to make the film he wanted to.

He's long been a popular director, making such brilliant films as The Devil's Backbone and Cronos.

But he never was able to break into Hollywood until Blade 2, which was both a financial and critical success and showed to Hollywood, hey, this guy can make movies that are both cool looking and make money.

And that was able to give Guillermo del Toro the pull to finally make Hellboy, which, of course, which any comic fan would absolutely love bringing Hellboy up to the big screen, an indie character.

You get the idea.

Pan's Labyrinth is Guillermo del Toro's take, and he worked on it for over a decade in the back of his head while giving the world Mimic, Blade II, Hellboy, and The Devil's Backbone, which Pan's Labyrinth is a spiritual successor and exploration of the importance of fairy tales set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

So gents, the story lands in 1944, deep in Franco- Francoist? How do you say that?

Francoist?

We had the opportunity in 1997, 2002, and 2004.

Do you know what those movies were?

One of those is, like, The Devil's Backbone.

No, we have not done that year yet.

So we're covering director's first films of the 2000s.

We're doing The Devil's Backbone and we're doing Talk to Her.

We've got Pedro Almodovar and we've got Guillermo del Toro.

Both directors making a return to the show.