Guillermo del Toro is a creative director who isn't willing to settle for a single genre.
He's demonstrated a love of fantasy (Pan's Labyrinth, almost directing The Hobbit), he's played with superheroes (Hellboy, Blade II), and he's dabbled in science fiction (Pacific Rim).
Now he's returning to one of the genres that got him started in the business: horror.
Crimson Peak plunges del Toro headfirst toward the "gothic" end of the horror spectrum, setting its action inside one of the most detailed gothic houses you've ever seen. Tom Hiddleston stars as Sir Thomas Sharpe, the dashing nobleman who sweeps Edith Cushing (played by Mia Wasikowska) off her feet and into a house of horror, aka Crimson Peak.
There, she encounters Hiddleston's disapproving sister Lady Lucille, played by Jessica Chastain, and a whole mess of dead people — none of whom seem happy to see her. Oh, and Charlie Hunnam is in it too.
The trailer finds Toro gleefully indulging his inner horror geek, stacking the deck against his heroine by placing Crimson Peak "atop a mountain of blood-red clay," as Legendary Pictures puts it. There are secrets galore and mysteries to solve, and despite the frights around every corner, Edith doggedly sets out to discover the true history of the house.
Ever since dropping his directing gig on The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro seems to be having more fun with his moviemaking than ever before. First he satisfied his love of giant monsters and huge robots with Pacific Rim, a world he's set to return to soon. Now he's enjoying a trip to old-school horror.
Crimson Peak will be in theaters on October 16, 2015.
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