CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

Edith Cushing saw her first ghost as a girl, when the spirit of her deceased mother warned her to stay away from a place called "Crimson Peak".  As an adult, Edith (Mia Wasikowska) - an aspiring horror writer - finds her life again shattered when her father dies, seeking solace in the arms of her suitor, the baronet Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), whom she marries.  Whisking her away to his remote manor in the English countryside, where Thomas lives with his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain), Edith finds herself stuck in a creppy mansion literally falling down around her, with a brother and sister whose hearts are as dark as the ghosts she starts again to see.  Don't go into this Guillermo del Toro-directed feast-for-the-eyes thinking horror; instead del Toro has crafted pure gothic romance, with touches of the supernatural, violence and gore.  Chastain is brilliantly evil, Hiddleston the man in the middle as Wasikowska's Edith finds herself increasingly snowbound in a world of ghosts and madness. (rated R)  B

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