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DVD, 2013
Current format, DVD, 2013, Director-approved two-DVD special ed., widescreen, All copies in use.
DVD, 2013
Current format, DVD, 2013, Director-approved two-DVD special ed., widescreen, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
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.
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Rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
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Spanish dialogue; with optional English subtitles.
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