The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Why Pan's Labyrinth gets so much praise as Guillermo Del Toro's best film and Cronos (1993) and this film go unnoticed is beyond me. Both Cronos and this film are on the Criterion Collection and are Beautiful in many senses, visually, plotwise, set-wise, acting, effects, really great. Guillermo loves to use children in his pictures  (Cronos, and he produced The Orphanage) I believe he was probably influenced by the classic spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, that I also recommend and love, this one takes place in an orphanage during the spanish civil war in the 1940s, and a boy from the orphanage encounters a ghost.  Whether you like Del Toro or not I recommend this one; Spooky, bloody and unique, it's like a combination of The Spirit of the Beehive, Au Revoir Les Enfants, and th violence of Pan's Labyrinth, I give it a 4.25/5; This film is also listed in Rue Morgue Magazine's 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need to See, view the trailer below: