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Crimson Peak

Year:2015
Country:International
Language:English
Genre:Drama, Fantasy, Horror
IMDB:IMDB Page
Rating:5.0  Rate
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Community: 2 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


DirectorGuillermo del Toro
Selected CastMia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing
 Jessica Chastain as Lucille Sharpe
 Tom Hiddleston as Thomas Sharpe


On DVD & Blu-ray World

Blu-ray Box Set

Crimson Peak - Arrow Video - USA (2019)
Blu-ray

Crimson Peak - Universal - Netherlands (2016)


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Magic Marmalade
6th Mar 2023
 Rated 5/10
A sumptuous boredom festival.

This ghost story movie is astonishing to look at, but mind numbingly tedious and dull. The excessive CGI makes the ghosty things decidedly unscary, plastic looking crap... And the look is too good for the kind of film they were trying to make - by my estimation, a kind of Hitchcock suspense, haunted house ghost story.

The cinematography is so sumptuous and colourful that it distracts from any drama or suspense this might have otherwise have had.

This tale of an intelligent, yet innocent aspiring writer getting hooked up with Tom Hiddleston's baronet (landed gentry type - Hiddleston doing yet another wonderful rendition of a non-variation of the typical Hiddleston character - as Hiddleston - getting boring now ) and his whacky sister could have been good if they'd gone more for atmosphere, rather than look - grimed it up a bit - gone dark, kind of thing (Might even have been better in black and white!)... and had a less boring screen play.

I was only half hour in and was playing with my phone, and feeling defeated that there was still an hour and some many minutes left.

Feels a lot like that 90's Liam Neeson version of The Haunting, where a lot was made of the visual gimmick, and how it looks, while being equally stultifyingly dull.

Avoid.

(Del Toro is vastly over-rated in my book - a poor man's Peter Jackson)

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jaimeeduardo
15th Oct 2020
 
 


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