03-21-2016, 02:13 PM
Deadly but dull.
Okay, maybe I was only half watching this as if it were some sort of homework assignment. I think I was going through email.
This is Guillermo Del Toro's latest effort, a gothic horror movie set at the turn of the century. It starts in Buffalo, NY and ends up somewhere in Scotland at the titular Crimson Peak. (It's Crimson because the snow turns blood red from the clay oozing up from underground.)
Whiny Jessica Chastaine is wooed by dreamy Tom Hiddleston. But Chastaines father dies and the relationship is on and off they go to Scotland for the gothicness to start.
This had every cliche i the book. The weird sister who might be something more. The odd tasty tea and whiny's new sickness. Places in the mansion you aren't supposed to go.
The production design of the film is great. The ghosts themselves look creepy and great. But I just couldn't be bothered enough by the tiresome plot and the cliched characters. I was happy when they all killed themselves in the end, an end that took forever.
Knife fights, but no sword fights.
Okay, maybe I was only half watching this as if it were some sort of homework assignment. I think I was going through email.
This is Guillermo Del Toro's latest effort, a gothic horror movie set at the turn of the century. It starts in Buffalo, NY and ends up somewhere in Scotland at the titular Crimson Peak. (It's Crimson because the snow turns blood red from the clay oozing up from underground.)
Whiny Jessica Chastaine is wooed by dreamy Tom Hiddleston. But Chastaines father dies and the relationship is on and off they go to Scotland for the gothicness to start.
This had every cliche i the book. The weird sister who might be something more. The odd tasty tea and whiny's new sickness. Places in the mansion you aren't supposed to go.
The production design of the film is great. The ghosts themselves look creepy and great. But I just couldn't be bothered enough by the tiresome plot and the cliched characters. I was happy when they all killed themselves in the end, an end that took forever.
Knife fights, but no sword fights.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm