In Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, a beautifully designed, gorgeously photographed and stunningly costumed homage to the classic British horror films made by Hammer during ’60s, a young American author is swept away by her mysterious new husband to a remote English mansion where his possibly-sinister sister holds their dark family secrets amidst cobwebbed hallways and ghostly corridors.
“[Crimson Peak] is lurid and ghastly and immensely enjoyable” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com
“Even the pristine white snow bleeds bright scarlet in Crimson Peak, the malformed love child between a richly atmospheric gothic romance and an overripe Italian giallo.” – Peter Debruge, Variety
“The insanely lush Gothic romance and ghost story plays like a hitherto unrecorded collaboration between Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, the designers of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion and whoever directed all those Bonnie Tyler music videos in the 1980s. The result is del Toro’s best film since Pan’s Labyrinth, one that should rightly become a staple for many Halloweens to come.” – Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
Ariel Schudson discusses Crimson Peak on the New Beverly blog.
