Trailer from Tom Hiddleston's terrifying new film - Crimson Peak - with Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam

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by Samantha Benitz Wed., May. 13, 2015 12:56 PM PDT



We officially have goose bumps!

In a newly released trailer of the horror flick Crimson Peak, the clip starts out in a dimly lit room with a trembling young girl who fears what may come out of the dark.

Mia Wasikowska portrays Edith, who grows up to be an aspiring author, torn between the love of an old friend and the romantic temptation of Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). As Edith tries to escape the ghosts of her traumatic past, she becomes captive to a house that bleeds the truth.
"You see where I come from, ghosts are not to be taken lightly," the Thor star warns.

Director Guillermo del Toro's star-studded cast includes Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam and Jessica Chastain, both adding elements to a thriller that will surely leave viewers on the edge of their seats.

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Tom HIddleston: Is ‘Crimson Peak’ Guillermo del Toro’s First Good English Film?

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Jacqueline Sahagian
February 16, 2015

The trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s next movie has debuted and it looks like the creep master might have made his a film worthy of legitimate critical acclaim for the first time since his 2006 Spanish-language dark fantasy masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth. Crimson Peak is a horror movie in the old-fashioned haunted house tradition that looks like it has del Toro in his element, pulling out all the stops to engage terrifying visuals and scare the crap out of viewers. A top-notch cast including Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain means this will be much more than your average Halloween slasher.

In the past Del Toro has separated his “good” movies (Spanish-language efforts) from his more commercial and fun English-language efforts like Hellboy and Pacific Rim. Clearly comic book and pulpy films still have a place in the director’s heart, but he told iO9 that the chance to direct and produce Crimson Peak changed his perspective on his ability to do more thoughtful work in English. “I wanted to make a movie that was able to blend two sides of my personality. After I did Mimic… Mimic was such a tough experience that I said, ‘I’m going to do the painfully beautiful and creepy things in my Spanish-language films, and I’m going to do the big sort of pop-pulp fun movies in English.’”

Pan’s Labyrinth won three Oscars, was nominated for three others, and continues to be included on lists of the greatest recent movies, including the IMDb 250 compiled by the Internet Movie Database’s most loyal users. That film is a study of the Spanish Civil War and how a young girl uses her imagination to escape her brutal reality. After making Pan’s Labyrinth, del Toro focused more on the “pop-pulp fun” movies with Hellboy II in 2008 and Pacific Rim in 2013. His new horror TV show The Strain on FX has gotten decent reception and has been picked up for another season. Nothing he’s made since Pan’s Labyrinth has gotten the same kind of critical acclaim, but Crimson Peak could change that.

Like Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak has a young female heroine at its center. While there is an element of romance used to kick off the story, as is common in the gothic tradition, del Toro says that was never meant to be the focus.

“I wanted to tackle a great adult story for a female lead,” del Toro told iO9. “I think it’s great when the female lead [is in] a normal romantic story, but then we live past that. Past getting the guy — fuck all that shit — we see her becoming her own person. We do what is done in gothic romance. We have the thriller aspect of it, we have the romance, brutal moments, and we have scary ghosts — but scarier people than ghosts. It’s a beautiful confection, and I hope you enjoy it.”

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Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds: Review for The Woman in Black

REVIEW: The Woman in Black

10:31 PM, Feb 4, 2012 | 3 comments

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Amy Jacobson Kurokawa
The Woman in Black
A review by Jonathan Mumm

In a sense, our young lawyer is on probation. Having lost his wife in childbirth several years before, he has not been able to pull himself from a depression that is having a very deleterious effect on his work. The law firm is offering him one chance to redeem himself: go to the little village of Crythin Gifford it is and the now deserted home of an elderly woman who took her own life. Once there, he is to sort through what promises to be mounds of papers to put her affairs in order.

Kipps is reluctant to leave his young son, but is eager to make good and so he sets off on his journey. When he arrives, however, he finds the villagers not only unreceptive but downright rude and it is only with some difficulty that he is able to secure a room for a night at a village inn. On top of that, the local lawyer who is supposed to help him simply gives him a small packet that he claims is all the paperwork Kipps will need before sending him off by carriage to catch the next train.

But Kipps is determined to see the job through and bribes the carriage driver to take him instead to the old mansion. The place gives new meaning to the word isolated. The road that takes you there goes through a boggy marsh along the seashore. It is a road that disappears at certain times of the day and night with the coming of high tide. The mansion itself is a long disused, decaying place, its rooms cluttered with old furnishings, old toys and memories.

There is something unsettled here and before long, our young lawyer has caught glimpses of a severe looking woman, an apparent ghost the locals call "the woman in black." He soon learns the reason they did not want him to stay is that whenever someone sees her, dreadful things occur.

The movie is full of mystery, deep secrets and long moments of Radcliffe walking the hallways of the lonely, old house with a candle or lantern, knowing there is something waiting just around the next corner. Director James Watkins builds the suspense and then ratchets it up, notch by notch. If you're looking to be scared, you won't be disappointed.

Radcliffe is very good as Kipps, Ciaran Hinds a stand out as the one man in the village willing to lend a hand and Janet McTeer equally good as Hinds' mad wife, still despairing over the loss of their son. On a recent television appearance, Radcliffe said The Woman in Black is a perfect date movie because your date will be jumping into your arms. From personal experience I can tell you it works for married couples as well.

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