Guillermo del Toro has an amazing gift for mixing the grotesque and the gorgeous. And his latest film Crimson Peak, out today, takes that visual panache to a brand new height. With every shot, del Toro overloads our senses more and more, until madness beckons.
It’s finally here—Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, the balls-out Gothic romance everybody with fond memories of Rebecca and Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights has been impatiently awaiting since only, oh, last year.
Guillermo del Toro is known primarily as an auteur of highly stylized horror and science fiction, but with Crimson Peak, the director has made a film that has captured the imagination of the fashion world. On Tuesday evening, Bergdorf Goodman unveiled a new series of windows inspired by the film, interpreting its…
Guillermo del Toro is doing full-on gothic romance in his new movie Crimson Peak, and he told us to expect “kinky,” unsettling action. We talked to the stars at Comic-Con, and asked Tom Hiddleston about the movie’s transgressive sexuality. And Jessica Chastain told us she was covered with bruises.
As previously established by Kelly Faircloth, horror stories of the Victorian gothic variety tend to rule and thusly, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, a movie about a young woman (Mia Wasikowska) who moves into the remote (and haunted) manor of her new husband (Tom Hiddleston) and his creepy sister (Jessica…
Hell yes: The trailer for Guillermo del Toro's gothic horror Crimson Peak is here. Shower me in creepy vibes and stifling neckwear and roiling Victorian sexual tension!!!!
Tale as old as time, true as it can be: Emma Watson will play Belle in a new live-action version of Beauty And The Beast, directed by Guillermo del Toro. We're not sure who will play the candlestick, or Gaston, or even if there will be a Gaston. But we do know that no one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston,…
Oh, dear: director Guillermo Del Toro has announced that he will no longer be directing the highly anticipated film The Hobbit, citing "the mounting pressures of conflicting schedules" as the reason for his departure. [The One Ring]
"…Soap opera storylines, sexual liberation, noir detective fiction… The myth seems to be twittering promiscuously to serve all avenues of life, from cereal boxes to romantic fiction." — From an op-ed by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. [NY Times]
