| Element | Information | |---------|-------------| | | Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth , The Shape of Water ) | | Main Cast | Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam | | Genre | Gothic romance / Horror / Mystery | | Runtime | 119 minutes | | Release Year | 2015 | | MPAA Rating | R (violence, disturbing images, some sexual content) |

Quick Summary Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro. Despite often being marketed as a terrifying ghost story, it is first and foremost a Victorian-era gothic romance —with ghosts serving as metaphors and warnings rather than the main source of horror.

In early 1900s Buffalo, New York, aspiring author Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) falls in love with the charming but mysterious Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), an English baronet who has come to America seeking funding for his clay-mining invention. After a family tragedy, Edith marries Thomas and moves to his ancestral home in rural England: Allerdale Hall —a crumbling, snow-covered mansion nicknamed “Crimson Peak” because of the red clay that seeps up through the ground and snow.

Once there, Edith is haunted by ghostly apparitions and must contend with Thomas’s cold, possessive sister, Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain). She soon discovers that the house harbors dark secrets, betrayals, and a horrifying truth.