Reviews

• del Toro builds excitement, dread, and melodrama in equal layers.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  12 May 2013

• It's a horror flick, and a creepily good one, that also functions as an allegory of the war that still haunts Spain seven decades later.

  Joe Morgenstern - The Wall Street Journal
  
  12 May 2013

• The Devil's Backbone has been compared to "The Others," and has the same ambition and intelligence, but is more compelling and even convincing.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  12 May 2013

• The film doesn't explore the nature of ghosts, as it promises to initially, but it's fun to watch Del Toro confront death and fear with such energy and humor.

  Edward Guthmann - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  12 May 2013

• A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood.

  Jay Carr - The Boston Globe
  
  12 May 2013