What is Cronos / The Devil's Backbone about?

CRONOS (LA INVENCIÓN DE CRONOS), 1993, Lions Gate, 94 min. Dir. Guillermo del Toro(PAN’S LABYRINTH; HELLBOY; BLADE II). Starring Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman. This absorbing Gothic tale was the winner of nine top Mexican Academy Awards, as well as the Critics’ Week Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The story reveals the secrets of an invention that has the power to grant eternal life, but gives its user a tremendous thirst for human blood. THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, 2001, Sony Classics, 106 min. Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, director Guillermo Del Toro’s third feature (and first in his native Spanish) follows ten-year-old refugee Carlos (Fernando Tielve), the newest resident of a war-wracked orphanage. His amenities include bullies, an unexploded bomb in the courtyard and the ghost of a slain child. Co-written by Del Toro, THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE is a remarkably poignant yet subtle ghost story.

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What is Cronos / The Devil's Backbone about?: CRONOS (LA INVENCIÓN DE CRONOS), 1993, Lions Gate, 94 min. Dir. Guillermo del Toro(PAN’S LABYRINTH; HELLBOY; BLADE II). Starring Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman. This absorbing Gothic tale was the winner of nine top Mexican Academy Awards, as well as the Critics’ Week Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The story reveals the secrets of an invention that has the power to grant eternal life, but gives its user a tremendous thirst for human blood.

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, 2001, Sony Classics, 106 min. Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, director Guillermo Del Toro’s third feature (and first in his native Spanish) follows ten-year-old refugee Carlos (Fernando Tielve), the newest resident of a war-wracked orphanage. His amenities include bullies, an unexploded bomb in the courtyard and the ghost of a slain child. Co-written by Del Toro, THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE is a remarkably poignant yet subtle ghost story.