Rotten
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.
Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
Crimson Peak
Love makes monsters of us all.
2015 · 1h 59m · R
Horror, Mystery, Romance
Directed by
Guillermo del Toro
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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72%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Rotten
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.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The real wonder is the sumptuous production design by Thomas E. Sanders, whose darkly colorful sets were inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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."
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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