GHOSTS Pt 15: The Devil's Backbone (2001) & The Orphanage (2007)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by film critic Clarisse Loughrey to discuss two beautiful ghostly modern masterpieces, Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and J.A. Bayona's The Orphanage.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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Clarisse Loughrey is a film critic for The Independent and Wittertainment and also has her own YouTube channel called That Darn Movie Show.
Clarisse can be found on TWITTER.
Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER
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| 0:00.0 | The 2007, Spain. |
| 0:17.0 | A woman lies awake in the middle of the night, racked with pain and guilt after the loss of her son. |
| 0:26.0 | She begins hearing strange noises in the house, creaking floorboards, cold draughts, bumps in the night. |
| 0:34.4 | Could it be that her missing son has finally returned? |
| 0:38.2 | Could it be his spirit trying to get in touch with her? |
| 0:41.0 | Could it all be psychological or could it be something else? |
| 0:45.0 | 2 on. |
| 0:47.0 | By the 2000s, the old-fashioned haunted house movies had returned in a big way |
| 0:55.1 | thanks to international directors such as Giamo del Toro who brought with him a |
| 0:59.4 | nostalgic love for old-fashioned horror movies as a welcome antidote to the glut of remakes and torture |
| 1:05.2 | pawns coming out in mainstream American cinema. |
| 1:08.1 | Two movies in particular, one Del Toro directed and another he produced became instant classics overnight |
| 1:14.4 | bringing love, sadness and compassion to some truly frightening subject matter. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the ghost story and we review two melancholic |
| 1:31.3 | masterpieces, the devil's backbone and the orphanage. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your |
| 1:48.4 | host. If you're joining us for the first time then welcome. In this |
| 1:51.8 | podcast we explore and dissect the history and |
| 1:54.4 | the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres across a number of |
| 1:58.9 | weeks. We are currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of the ghost story and this is part 15, |
| 2:05.9 | can you believe it, in which we are exploring two of my personal favorite ghost movies, |
| 2:11.2 | the Devil's Backbone and and The Orphanage. |
| 2:14.0 | But before we get started, here are a few contact details. |
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