#the devil's backbone

What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.

DESERT SYMBOLISM movies list ✬

It Was Just an Accident (2025) dir. Jafar Panahi

Sirāt (2025) dir. Óliver Laxe

Zabriskie Point (1970) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Rango (2011) dir. Gore Verbinski

Woman in the Dunes (1964) dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

Oedipus Rex (1967) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

I saw someone mention The Orphanage as being directed by Guillermo del Toro, which is close! (I was confused by this too when I was researching) I don't think he directed it, but he produced it! He did direct a different film, also about a haunted orphanage: The Devil's Backbone (2001). here's Erik and Tomás playing Uno with Santi, the ghost boy from that movie.