With the majority of its twists easy to deduce and the rest telegraphed far ahead of time, the picture isn't at all scary or suspenseful, but it also isn't remotely atmospheric, a shock considering the elegance of the costume design by Kate Hawley and the richness of the production design by Thomas E. Del Toro clearly means for Crimson Peak to register as a throwback to classic films steeped in Gothic ambience, but he piles on the artifice to such an excessive degree that the entire project suffers from overbearing overkill. But almost immediately upon arriving at this dilapidated, isolated estate, Emily is exposed to all manner of inexplicable sights and sounds. In her case, she tosses aside a colorless suitor (colorless Charlie Hunnam) for a mysterious Brit named Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), marries this haunted man, and moves to his family home in England, where the couple will share quarters with his perpetually brooding sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain). Edith is visited by the ghost of her mother, who warns her to "Beware of Crimson Peak!" Edith can make no sense of the spectral suggestion, so she proceeds with her life, which, following the lead of any young protagonist in a bildungsroman, finds her leaving home for lands unknown. Mia Wasikowska essays the role of Edith Cushing, an aspiring novelist living in turn-of-the-20th-century Buffalo with her protective father (an excellent Jim Beaver). One of last fall's biggest disappointments, writer-director Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak will likely only appeal to moviegoers unfamiliar with Jane Eyre or Henry James or Bluebeard or Daphne du Maurier or, heck, even The Silence of the Lambs. Mia Wasikowska in Crimson Peak (Photo: Universal)ĬRIMSON PEAK (2015).
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