Director Guillermo Del Toro
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
Rate MA
Score 4/6

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.

Some of you out there might remember a while ago that I posted an article titled ‘Why My Plans Fell Through’ talking about an ill-fated trip to Sydney in an effort to go to a preview screening for a movie. The Movie that was going to be screened was Crimson Peak. Well due to committing myself to going to a recent film festival that came to Canberra and current renovations at the friendly neighbourhood cinema had side tracked my efforts to see Crimson Peak. I’ll to think that I get to most movies sooner or later; I just wish that this didn’t take me so long to see.
I have to admit that I’m really not overly familiar with Guillermo Del Toro’s work. Though what I do know of his work is that he has a very particular visual style and that what was on display with Crimson Peak especially with the Shapre’s ancestral home Allerdale Hall. Considering that Halloween has only just been and gone personally I wouldn’t recommend Crimson Peak for a night of scary movies. Maybe I’m being a little cynical but it seemed that the movie’s ghost served a different purpose.
Though it’s good to see an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) in any international production personally I was looking forward to see Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam’s performances because they all had types of roles that I had never seen them in before. Jessica Chastain was particularly outstanding in the movie’s finale.