Titles time line : The Devil's Backbone El espinazo del diablo

Cast and Crew for The Devil's Backbone :

00:00:04 - Augustin and Pedro Almodovar present

00:00:07 - a production of EL DESEO , s.a. TEQUILA GANG

00:00:12 - with the participation of SOGEPAQ , s.a., CANAL + ESPANA

00:00:17 - and ANHELO PRODUCTIONS

00:00:22 - a film by GUILERMO DEL TORO

00:01:43 - MARISA PREDES

00:01:47 - EDUARDO NORIEGA

00:01:50 - FEDERICO LUPPI

00:01:54 - FERNANDO TIELVE   INIGO GARCES

00:01:58 - IRENE VISEDO in the role of Conchita

00:02:02 - JOSE MANUELLO LORENCO  PACO MAESTRE

00:02:05 - makeup JORGE HERNANDES hairdresser FERMIN GALAN  wardrobe JOSE VICO

00:02:11 - digital efects TELSON  makeup efects DDT mechanical efects REYES ABADES

00:02:19 - sound MIGUEL REJAS  sound design SALVADOR MAYOLAS  sound mixer RAY GILLON

00:02:27 - casting director SARA BILBATUA

00:02:30 - camera and steady cam operator JOAQUIN MANCHADO

00:02:34 - montage LUIS DE LA MADRID

00:02:37 - artistic director CESAR MACARRON

00:02:42 - JAVIER NAVARRETE

00:02:44 - script GUILLERMO DEL TORO  ANTONIO TRASHORRAS DAVID MUNOS

00:02:49 - co-producer ROSA BOSCH asociate producer MICHEL RUBEN

00:02:54 - photography director GUILLERMO NAVARRO A.C.S

00:02:58 - productors AUGUSTIN ALMODOVAR  BERTHA NAVARRO

00:03:04 - production director ESTHER GARCIA

00:03:07 - location GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Analysation of an opening sequence of The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone

Opening Sequence

G e n r e -  The genre of this film is horror drama .
It starts with creepy score music, building suspence and fiery broken-like shrift to list the cast and crew.
The sequence starts with a voice over of an old man talking about what a ghost is. That tells the audience the film is going to be about a ghost - a typical horror film theme.
The audience is shown a close up of a young boy laying in a pool of blood - suffering. And a boy leaning over him, crying and trying to help. That initially leads us to believe that one of the boys killed the other one by accident. The boy is shown, thrown into a pool of blurry muddy water, stretching his hands out for help. Then the scene cuts to a fetus in a jar, as signification of death and birth colliding at some point. Then a backbone is shown on the same background of dirty water more reddish this time, as bloody.
C h a r a c h t e r - The boy crying is shown as a killer, but an innesent as he is sorry for what he's done. In horror films though the opening scene tricks the viewer, so we wouldn't know for sure
  N a r r a t i v e -  The opening sequence doesn't reveil very much of the story. It only engages the audience into it's mystery and riddles - with the voiceover of the old man. The voice over sound like his scattered thoughts that one would be thinking to himself after something big has happened to them. He sounds like he's still in shock by something long gone.

E n i g m a  - The enigma in this sequence is the death of the young boy, who killed him . An who is the other boy crying for what has happened. Are they related? Who is the old man? And why is he talking about a ghost, is it the young boy returning to avenge his death?!