April 20, 2026

This Day in Halloween: Guillermo Del Toro's child ghost story "The Devil’s Backbone" opens in Spain in 2001. / Illustration by Kyo Johnson

The Devil’s Backbone opens in Spain in 2001. It would open in the U.S. in November of that year. Guillermo Del Toro’s film about a ghost at a boy’s orphanage is also about how Spain’s civil war still haunts the country. 

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