Tag: The Devil’s Backbone
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Guillermo del Toro Is Right About ‘No One Will Save You’s Catholic Message
Guillermo del Toro is one of our modern film masters. While he can’t simply be labeled as just a horror director, most of his films find at least some of their roots in the genre. You could go on and on about classic films such as Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, Hellboy, and Crimson Peak, but…
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The Communion Girl review – teens spooked by holy terror in creepy-doll horror
The stifling religious and social conformity of a small Spanish town is the source of the shocks in this scare story – along with a spectral girl in whiteHere is another sociologically buttressed Spanish-language gothic horror to file alongside The Devil’s Backbone and The Orphanage. With this film set near 1980s Tarragona, director Víctor García…
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Guillermo del Toro: ‘I could tweet 20 times a day – I’m very careful not to’
The director has a new novel out, an animation series on Netflix and two films in the pipeline – and still had time to watch three films a day in lockdownA specialist in fantasy and the supernatural, Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro was born in Guadalajara in 1964. He worked as a special effects makeup…
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Cool Stuff: A Tarot Card Deck Inspired By the Films of Guillermo del Toro Knows Your Past, Present & Future
Guillermo del Toro has never shied away from the spiritual, supernatural, and strange. Movies like Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Cronos, Crimson Peak, The Devil’s Backbone, and features ghost stories, fantasy fables, unconventional romances, and more, all in a mesmerizing macabre canvas. Now the films of Guillermo del Toro are being repurposed for Tarot…