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porta	The Devils Backbone	Lead	[-]
Jul 21 05 4:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	An incredible disappointment for me, this one. I loved Hellboy so thought I'd go back and check this one out - having saw a neat trailer for it and read some good reviews - but I was bored witless throughout. The horror element was tame lame and cliched. And it moved at a snails pace. And the bomb? Did the writer just forget that was a part of the story half way though?
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jim harper	Devil's Backbone	#1	[-]
Jul 21 05 5:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I really enjoyed this film. Quiet and engrossing. It's good to see Del Toro hasn't entirely switched to Blade 2 and Hellboy-style flash. They're great films, but so are Cronos and The Devil's Backbone.
Gerry Carpenter	Re: Devil's Backbone	#2	[-]
Jul 21 05 3:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I agree, DEVIL'S BACKBONE is much more akin to CRONOS than any of del Toro's action fare. It just shows how much diversity the man has. He seems to have a special talent for working with children too, that shows up in MIMIC but not really in HELLBOY or BLADE 2.
jim harper	Devil's Backbone	#3	[-]
Jul 21 05 4:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Del Toro is one of the few directors I keen an eye on. I was pretty excited when his name came up in connection with both The Creature From the Black Lagoon and In the Mountains of Madness, but sadly neither project materialized.
Tim Lucas VW	Re: Devil's Backbone	#4	[-]
Jul 21 05 5:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Del Toro admits to making his movies on a "one for you [the studio], one for me" basis, with movies like HELLBOY and BLADE II representing the ones he makes for commercial leverage. He still plans to make IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, if he can find someone to put up the funding. In my opinion, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE is one of the best horror movies of the last decade, and I think (among other things) it has the best explosion scene ever filmed.
jim harper	Devil's Backbone	#5	[-]
Jul 21 05 5:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Del Toro's 'studio' flicks are worth catching too, which is fairly unusual. Cronos and Devil's Backbone are the best films he's done, but there's a lot of entertainment to be found in Mimic, Blade II and Hellboy as well. Devil's Backbone is certainly one of the best horror movies of recent years, and yet another great film from the criminally-underrated Spanish horror scene. It's probably due to the fact that the UK doesn't have a sizeable Spanish-speaking heritage, but so far Spanish films seem to be largely ignored over here. A fair number of films are getting released, but with relatively little fanfare.

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