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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
One of the most personal films by Guillermo del Toro, The Devil’s 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 mélange that, like his later Pan’s Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
Spanish Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Introduction, Interview, Documentary, Interactive Feature, Deleted Scenes, Storyboard Comparison, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Audio commentary featuring Guillermo del Toro
- Video introduction by Guillermo del Toro from 2010
- New and archival interviews with Guillermo del Toro about the creation of his film
- ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary
- Interactive director’s notebook
- Four deleted scenes, with commentary by Guillermo del Toro
- New interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the film’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War
- Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film
- Trailer
- Insert featuring an essay by critic Mark Kermode
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Release Credits
Producer: Curtis Tsui
Artwork: Guy Davis
Release Notes on Restoration
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil’s Backbone is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised by director Guillermo del Toto and director of photography Guillermo Navarro supervised, this new high-definition digital transfer was created in 2K resolution on an ARRISCAN film scanner from the original 35mm camera negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI’s DRS and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Image Systems’ Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain management, jitter, and flicker.
The original 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35mm 6-channel magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated audio workstation.
The original 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35mm 6-channel magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated audio workstation.