Crimson Peak Jun 2026

When Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak slithered into theaters in 2015, audiences were split. The marketing campaign had promised a terrifying, jump-scare-laden horror film in the vein of The Conjuring or Insidious . What viewers got instead was something far more complex, far more beautiful, and, arguably, far more disturbing: a lush, violent, and heartbreaking Gothic romance.

The film opens with our protagonist, Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), declaring that ghosts are real, but they are metaphors. "It's not a ghost story," she tells a publisher. "It's a story with a ghost in it." Del Toro literalizes this by making the house the primary ghost. The mansion sinks into a bed of red clay, which bleeds up through the floors in winter, seeps through the wooden planks, and stains everything it touches. Crimson Peak

Lucille represents the perversion of the Gothic "nurturer." She runs the house, tends to the tea, and sews—but she also wields a sharpened gardening trowel with terrifying efficiency. Her tragedy is that she loves Thomas too much. In the Sharpe family, "love" is a curse that led their mother to murder their father, and it has warped Lucille into a possessive, murderous matriarch. When Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak slithered into

: A lengthy, atmospheric track that captures the eerie grandeur of the crumbling Sharpe estate. Crimson Peak The film opens with our protagonist, Edith Cushing

Edith Cushing is a deliberate parody of the Gothic heroine. She is an aspiring author who writes ghost stories but refuses to be "the damsel in distress." Yet, she makes the same fatal mistake as all Gothic heroines: she falls in love with a mystery.