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The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets....

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Corporate Author: Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-, Noriega, Eduardo, 1918?-2007, Luppi, Federico, Paredes, Marisa, 1946-, Tielve, Fernando, Visedo, Irene, 1978-
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Spanish
Language Notes:Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2013.
Series:Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs)
Subjects:
Haunted places > Spain > Drama.
Orphanages > Spain > Drama.
Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Drama.
Orfanatos > España > Teatro.
España > Historia > Guerra civil, 1936-1939 > Teatro.
Horror films.
Foreign films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
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Summary:The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Item Description:Title from disc label.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: new 2k digital film restoration, approved by director Guillermo del Toro ; audio commentary featuring del Toro ; audio commentary featuring Del Toro ; video introduction by Del Toro from 2010 ; new interviews with Del Toro ; Que es un fantasma, a 2004 making-of documentary ; interactive director's notebook, with Del Toro's drawings ; four deleted scenes, with optional commentary ; new featurette about the Spanish Civil War as evoked in the film ; program comparing Del Toro's thumbnail sketches ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Kermode.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Format:Blu-ray; 16:9 widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio; DTS HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; art director, Cesar Macarrón ; editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; costume designer, José Vico ; mechanical special effects, Reyes Abades.