There are a couple of monsters (supernatural and human), but the gigantic emotions are the most terrifying thing onscreen. Del Toro's films can take Grand Opera emotion. Crimson Peak movie reviews & Metacritic score: When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a Crimson Peak is likely not what you would expect.
It's a tribute to days gone by, but Del Toro never really gets inside it; we don't. Thrills, spills and chillas await in Guillermo del Toro's old-fashioned Gothic ghost story. Guillermo del Toro doesn't merely direct movies.
He paints them, dreams them, shapes them into private fantasies. Chris Stuckmann reviews Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver. Crimson Peak is a fascinating conundrum of a movie. I was close to hating it as I walked out of the theater, but images and moments from it have stayed with me. I keep thinking about the designs of the ghosts Edith keeps seeing, with little ribbons of skin floating off them into the ether. Mia Wasikowska on Crimson Peak: 'Don't be afraid of ghosts.
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Warned by her dead mother to "beware of Crimson Peak!", Edith becomes a canary in a cage, an image evoked most startlingly by costume designer Kate Hawley's vivid yellow dress framed within the iron latticework of Allerdale. Radically shifting gears from 'Pacific Rim' into Gothic romance territory, Guillermo del Toro creates a visionary haunted house movie with vacancies where the scares should be. Guillermo del Toro tries his elegant best to shake the cobwebs from a musty old genre but still ends up telling a very traditional and predictable haunted house yarn in Crimson Peak.
And Guillermo Del Toro must have thought the same thing because Crimson Peak is a gorgeous looking Gothic style movie with awesomely designed sets which Unfortunately it got only moderate critical reviews and was also somewhat ignored by the audience in favor of Goosebumps no less. Overall, Crimson Peak isn't a bad movie. It very much feels like del Toro is trying to do to gothic romances with Crimson Peak what he did to fairy tales with Pan's Labyrinth, and in that way the two films feel like cousins. And while it's beautiful and has an atmosphere that would make other films and. "Crimson Peak," as described by its own director, is a Gothic horror film.