They’re trying to help Edith, so her fate is not forever intertwined with the house and the Sharps, like theirs were. They’re trying to warn her about the nefarious plans of the Sharpe siblings. Because despite all the scariness of the ghosts and spirits, none of them actually try to harm Edith. And as twisted and mad as she is, she speaks the truth. Lucille says it, doesn’t she? All the horror in Crimson Peak was for love. The marketing did lie to us.īecause if it’s like Rebecca, albeit with some actual ghosts and a bit more violence from the get go, then del Toro is right. So, despite me saying “gothic horror” throughout this piece… it’s actually not. Before the film was released widely he said, on Twitter, that it was a gothic romance, not a gothic horror. Because the audience wasn’t the only voice saying it wasn’t horror. And to that end, I also think that del Toro is completely correct about the genre classifications of the film. In more ways than one, Crimson Peak is like Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca… if Rebecca was still alive and Mr. When it’s revealed that Thomas has been married many times before her, and that the Sharpes are poisoning her, Edith refuses to be another ghost at Allerdale Hall. 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. In the six years since Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film Crimson Peak was released, the general consensus on the film has changed.
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