Horror movies don't usually make it into the Toronto International Film Festival, except in the deliberately trashy Midnight Madness program.

So you sense that Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, which did play in the mainstream festival last fall, is a cut above -- perhaps more stylish, more mature, more serious than most horror movies.
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In Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, the dead refuse to be silenced.

Set in the final months of Spain's 1939 civil war, The Devil's Backbone is a creepy, atmospheric ghost story that has a great deal in common with The Sixth Sense and The Others.
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