New Arrival The Devil’s Backbone (#666)

One of the most personal films by Guillermo del Toro, The Devils 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 mlange that, like his later Pans Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 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 on the Blu-ray edition

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 directors notebook

Four deleted scenes, with commentary by del Toro

New interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the films depiction of the Spanish Civil War

Program comparing Del Toros thumbnail sketches and Carlos Gimnezs storyboards with the final film

Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toros thumbnail sketches (Blu-ray edition only)

Trailer

New English subtitle translation by del Toro

PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Kermode