Crimson Peak is acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro's latest masterpiece starring lead actors Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain. He sought to defy creative boundaries with Crimson Peak in an amalgam of terror and love, reinventing the horror genre altogether and living up to his reputation as a visionary director.
Recently, the cast and crew appeared at the San Diego Comic Con 2015 and shared their insights on the film including how it is more than the usual ghosts and haunted houses. With its lavish Victorian-era setting and hauntingly beautiful romance story, it could certainly pass for an unexpectedly great date movie.
In an interview with Yahoo! Movies, Hiddleston and Chastain asserted the film's date movie appeal saying that it's both scary and romantic, which is why it's so perfect. Chastain said, "Because you go with your love or your wannabe love, and then right when it's getting romantic, you kind of cuddle, and then when it's scary, you cuddle more."
In a separate interview with Hit Fix, Del Toro also emphasized that the film is not what he'd call a horror movie.
"I made it clear it was not horror, it was gothic romance," Del Toro told the reporter. "So you are going to have some of the trappings and scares of horror, but you have also the sad beauty of romance. We went and created this, which is a throwback to the lavish Hollywood productions of yore."
According to Time.com, the multi-awarded director also claimed that one of the film's intentions was to empower women. He spoke of the women in his life and admitted that they were his inspiration for strong leading ladies even in past films such as Pan's Labyrinth.
The film, set in the 1900s, seeks to project the era's break into modernity - to cast away stereotypes that the end-all for females achieving happiness is marriage. It tells the story of an aspiring female author who falls in love and is swept away into a terrifying new life in an equally frightening mansion.
Crimson Peak is set for release on October 16, 2015 by Legendary Pictures in co-production with Universal Pictures.
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