Devils Backbone

Del Toro's fascination with blending genre's can be seen in Devils Backbone but I would still categorize this as a horror film. Unlike other horror films, this film doesn't focus on the gore and killing but focuses on the plot. Most horror films lack a plot that makes sense or claim that the events are based on a true story. In this film there was blood and murder but the scenes were suspenseful. Like other horror films, there was a ghost in this movie but it wasn't used to terrify people but to show the injustice of greed. The horror displayed in this film can be more realistic because it contains death, war, and greed. Del Toro's intentions of making a horror film are not for the pure scare but for the mental images of lifelike events that can terrify society.