Crimson Peak2015
“Love makes monsters of us all.”
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
On the charts
🏆 7 wins & 45 nominations total
The premise
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. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Horror Vault's take
A young American woman with a passion for storytelling finds herself drawn into the orbit of a charming but enigmatic English baronet, ultimately leaving everything familiar behind to begin a new life in his decaying ancestral estate. The crumbling mansion — steeped in crimson clay and cold drafts — seems almost alive, and the ghosts that haunt its halls may carry warnings she cannot yet decipher. Guillermo del Toro crafts a lavish Victorian nightmare where beauty and menace are inseparable, and every gorgeous surface conceals something deeply wrong beneath it.
Content: Graphic Violence, Brutal Murder Sequences, Disturbing Imagery, Themes Of Incest, Poison-Related Harm
Cast
Mia Wasikowska
Edith Cushing
Jessica Chastain
Lady Lucille Sharpe
Tom Hiddleston
Sir Thomas Sharpe
Charlie Hunnam
Dr. Alan McMichael
Jim Beaver
Carter Cushing
Burn Gorman
Holly
Leslie Hope
Mrs. McMichael
Jonathan Hyde
Ogilvie
Doug Jones
Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe
Bruce Gray
Ferguson
Emily Coutts
Eunice McMichael
Alec Stockwell
Finlay
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