The Devil's Backbone (2002)

Still on a Guillermo Del Toro high so I got this. Never as frightening as the DVD first page suggests but quite creepy and atmospheric, anyway. Uses Federico Luppi again, whom I quite like, now looking like a stately Iberian Sean Connery. The plot design is again melancholic, harking back to Cronos and paving the way for Pan's Labyrinth, as it is again about the Spanish Civil War. I liked this, although the scare factor is never truly realised - especially the grotesque birth defect where the movie gets its name from.