The Devil's Backbone movie Vance (Stanwyck)

Vance (Stanwyck)

and writer-producer-actor Lena Waithe

news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors

the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra

Each title is an essential contribution to the art form and a window onto a filmmaking tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience

The Devil's Backbone movie Vance (Stanwyck)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,