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Hey, do you like stories about ghosts that are actually metaphors for a nation's inability to learn from its past trauma, leading to future horrors? Well, GOOD NEWS. We continue our month of international horror with Guillermo Del Toro's 2001 film The Devil's Backbone, a gorgeous and poignant ghost story that just got a very fancy Criterion release. Join us for wailing about the themes, the A+ effects; and yes, more fucked-up production details. Legacies of trauma in Del Toro's work: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2850-the-devil-s-backbone-the-past-is-never-dead Visual analysis of the film: http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/feature-articles/devil_backbone/ CONTENT WARNING for discussion of child death, child abuse (physical and sexual), gore, body horror, abjection of disability, and war crimes 1:00 Background 7:00 The Plot 10:00 "What is a Ghost" 16:00 A Brutal Setting 21:00 The Literary Grotesque 27:00 Santi 31:00 Homage to the Gothic 36:00 Them Effects 39:00 You'll Never Leave This Place 42:00 Del Toro's Mindset 48:00 Should You Watch This Say hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale Join us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher – and if you’d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we’d appreciate it!