After the mysterious death of her father, she marries Thomas and moves in with him and his sister Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain) in their dilapidated English mansion. Set in 1887, Crimson Peak follows the young American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) as she falls in love with Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). And this story certainly falls under that umbrella. Lots of things are gothic and spooky without being classified as such.
However, horror and terror moments alone do not make a horror film. Creatures and secrets and rattling door knobs that send a chill down your spine as the music climaxes. It’s filled with a lot of the scares and thrills that one might use to classify del Toro’s film in the genre.
The trailer that Legendary put out in May of 2015 certainly looks like a horror flick. It’s beautiful to look at, but it didn’t deliver on the scare factor.Īnd while the film does have its moments of ghost horror, jump scares, and some gnarly del Toro gore, the fact that so many people think Crimson Peak is an out-and-out horror is all due to marketing. The vibe was generally that it was perfectly fine. Like, the original Forbes review of the film called it, “so disappointing it’s scary” and Entertainment Weekly said that it was “so preoccupied with being visually stunning it forgets to be scary.” Which isn’t to say that people outwardly hated the film or anything. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.In the six years since Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film Crimson Peak was released, the general consensus on the film has changed.
Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds.and remembers. In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Though it will be an English-language production, Del Toro says that Crimson Peak will be in large part a return to his Spanish horror roots, which include films like The Devil's Backbone, Cronos and Pan's Labyrinth. In a recent interview with STYD, del Toro makes it sound fairly clear that Crimson Peak will have a lot more in common with The Shining than with The Haunting or The Innocents, at least in terms of the content that's going to earn it an R rating. Embargoed to 13th October, Simultaneous Release In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider.
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