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Running away from her family tragedy seemed the right thing to do until Edith Cushing fell for a stranger. She soon discover that there is more than meets the ordinary with each truth that unravels.
9 September 1932, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
6 May 1965, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
27 January 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 June 1922, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 February 1981, Westminster, London, England, UK
10 April 1980, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
30 July 1977, Ciudad Real, Spain
6 March 2003, Ontario, Canada
11 April 1983, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
14 October 1989, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
2 November 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 August 1950, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
March 23, 2017
Crimson Peak wants to be a lot of things, and it doesn't succeed at all of them. But when it does succeed it is so bewitching that its faults can be excused.
October 22, 2015
All the carefully orchestrated color schemes and all the dark corridors and secret chambers and all the flowing red metaphors in the world can't accelerate the slow patches, or make us care about lead characters.
October 22, 2015
The real wonder is the sumptuous production design by Thomas E. Sanders, whose darkly colorful sets were inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
November 09, 2015
Crimson Peak is an effort to make a throwback movie with modern effects and modern sex scenes, but it can't contend with the modern gaze with which we're looking at it.
October 21, 2015
Del Toro just goes for effect, and the effect he seems to be going for here is something like, "Ew, Guillermo, that's really gross."
July 19, 2016
To absorb the extraordinary details, colors, shapes and situations that are rife with layered danger is to witness this director's fierce commitment to his own vision.
February 24, 2017
Even though it has visual beauty that makes it required viewing on the big screen, I can't endorse Crimson Peak or claim it is anything more significant than a disappointment.
February 24, 2017
What [Guillermo] del Toro had in mind when shooting Crimson Peak was probably a stylish gothic period piece in the same acclaimed lane as Pan's Labyrinth. Unfortunately, Crimson Peak fails to work on that level.
October 26, 2015
Del Toro builds a tight plot but never develops it; his frames are overdecorated with macabre clutter and smothered in shadow, but the atmosphere of dread never reaches ecstatic excesses.
October 16, 2015
Guillermo del Toro's latest dive into the darkness is a sumptuous, beautifully constructed tale that feels both archaic and inviting.
