The Devil's Backbone -Guillermo Del Toro
Great film. Great way to do a ghost story. I felt that it achieved a balance between the war time stuggles aspect and the ghost story along with it. I was surprised to find out that neither Pan's Labyrinth or The Devil's Backbone were based on books. I did find the entire legend around Santi to be a little odd though, I mean, they treated it like something that had happened decades ago when it was all very recent more or less. Eh, probably just wanted to find some way to integrate the diffused bomb into the plot.
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