After a bad experience in Hollywood, Guillermo del Toro had lost his spark. He got it back with a story of a haunted orphanage during the Spanish Civil War, a script he wrote when he was still a student. Together with the film’s producer Rosa Bosch, BFI’s Creative Director and author of The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema Jason Wood and co-host of the Filmspotting podcast Josh Larsen, guest host Anna Bogutskaya finds out how The Devil’s Backbone (2001) gave Guillermo his horror groove back.
Season six of the MUBI Podcast, titled “Haunted Homes,” explores how movies about haunted houses let us explore—and often parallel—our relationships with our homes. Each episode visits a horror movie that changed the way we imagine a haunted house, from the crumbling Gothic mansions to white picket fences, what it says about the people who live in the houses and what scares them the most. Hosted and written by Anna Bogutskaya.
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