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The Devil's Backbone

2001 · directed by Guillermo del Toro · 108 min
22,780 feet · Prominence
1,540th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw39

Lifetime worldwide gross $7m, re-releases included; about $12m in 2026 money.

Rank6,722 of 11,051In 2001157 of 229

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise86

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics86 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Del Toro ghost story, strong critical cult.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.4 from 73kWikipedia21k views a monthAge25 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,621 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 39 praise 86 legacy 42averages 56, placing it at22,780 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Eduardo Noriega

In these careers — elevation for this film

Eduardo Noriega18,686 ftMarisa Paredes18,453 ft