Marrowbone Director Sergio G. Sanchez on Finding the Light in the Darkness

After writing the scripts for two international successes, The Orphanage (2007) and The Impossible (2012), both directed by fellow Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, Sergio G. Sanchez knew he was ready to direct one of his scripts. Marrowbone marks his fitting directing debut; it will be familiar to fans of the gothic The Orphanage, yet it stretches the filmmaker by ambitiously working on the level of both ghost story and family drama.

First Marrowbone Trailer Pits Orphans Against the Sinister Forces of one Terrible House

Marrowbone looks like your classic haunted house tale, but with a few added personal touches that give the film a delicious twist. The first trailer gives us a glimpse of the world that the film’s writer and director Sergio G. Sanchez has created, which tells the story of four orphaned siblings (the Marrowbones) who have just moved into a new home after the death of their mother.

The siblings have kept the death of their mother a secret so that they won’t be forced to separate from one another,