The Devil's Backbone was released in 2002 by director Guilermo Del Toro. It is set during the period of the Spanish Civil War in an Orphanage so it's going to be quite old and dark which will make you scared even more. The title is in red which simbolises blood which means there is going to be some blood in the film which means there is going to be death. The font is also quite weird and unusual that looks like chicken scratch and looks like someone has written in blood or something which also connotes that there is going to be death.

 The opening sequence is that there is a shot of a wall and the camera creeps in. Then there is bombs dropping into the city from a plane. Then it's of a boy in a dark room who has just died and has blood pooring from his head and then the camera starts to move out and you see another boy crying which could mean that he was the boys close friend or brother or either he has hurt him. The boy crying puts the body into the water and than you start to see something in the water growing whilst the opening credits are going on. You see the mix of the blood with the dirty water and the camera starts to move around this thing in the water and you start to see this horrible spine growing on him and it looks very demonic and dark, which correlates with the title as it does look like the Devils Backbone. 

The sub heading is also quite unusual and makes you feel scared it is also written in red so connotes blood and death. '' The Living is always more Dangerous than the Dead '' In Horror Films there is always death and it is typical of a horror film and within the first couple minutes you see a young boy who's dead which connotes to us that he could come back and haunt them because the film is about a spirit who comes back to haunt this orphanage. 

The first person you see is the boy in the room with blood over his head and the camera creeps in closely so to see his last emotion and so you could see what is wrong with him. The other boy looks like a troubled kid and lonely kid who has either just killed this boy or was friends with the kid that is dead. The dialogue is spanish which correlates with the Spanish Civil war because it is set within that time period and whilst the Civil war is going on. The boy who is alive speaks with lots of emotion and starts to use metaphors to describe what the dead boy looks like. There is a voiceover when the boy is put into the water which tells us what he the dead boy looks like using metaphors. There is use of music which is quite sad and depressing which shows us that it is sad and emotional. The characters are both wearing old and dirty clothes which could connote that they are living in poverty. 

I think that this film is targeted at people of ages 18 and above because it looks quite demonic and dark and something that people of there age would enjoy more than people of the ages of 14 and 15.