Title from web page. Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Marisa Paredes, Fernando Tielve, Irene Visedo. Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Summary:
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
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