FILM

Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:55pm, it's another Midnight Movie Classic at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre.

Friday-Saturday, October 23-24:  The Devil's Backbone

This stylish and lyrical supernatural melodrama tells the mournful fable of the Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. A new arrival -- 12-year-old Carlos -- gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school, including the secret that haunts them: the death of a student who was brutally murdered, and whose pale ghost now wanders the grounds.

Guillermo del Toro's richly atmospheric, genuinely chilling film stars Federico Luppi (Cronos), Marisa Paredes (All About My Mother) and Eduardo Noreiga (Open Your Eyes, Burnt Money). Read Landmark's exclusive interview with director Guillermo del Toro!

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, Paco Maestre, José Manuel Lorenzo, Junio Valverde

MPAA Rating: R

Run Time: 1hr 46mins

Release Year: 2001

Country Of Origin: Spain/Mexico