Category: Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak is a 2015 romantic movie with elements of horror full of dark gothic enchantment and estheticism created by director Guillermo del Toro. All events from this scary yet enchanting film happen within the community of nobility on the turn-of-the-century in the state of New York. It’s the time of young bachelorettes seeking rich and caring husbands who desire to live quite peaceful lives near their husbands. These women don’t want to gain any profession or, what is even worse, to work.
This is what makes Edith Cushing a black sheep of the society – she doesn’t want to marry or to have countless children. Her strong inner desire is to write novels. And if to talk more specifically, the histories about paranormal events and supernatural powers. Edith is not a big admirer of classic romantic stories considering them boring and hollow. But she really enjoys stories about ghosts because she has already seen one – her mother’s.
The girl has been raised by her father, a wealthy businessman Carter Cushing, who loves her to the bottom of his heart and allows her, how their milieu call it, a bit eccentric behavior. Her mother died when she was a small child but visited her daughter one more time after death to deliver a terrible message – Beware of Crimson Peak. Being a child, Edith forgets the message, and it doesn’t even affect her positive attitude towards the unexplainable. Fancy balls and idle chattering don’t attract her as much as literature and her own creativity.
Everything changes one day – she meets Sit Thomas Sharpe, a handsome baronet from England, who has come to America to find investors for his small family business – clay mining. He is accompanied by his sister, Lucille, a beautiful yet cold woman that frightens Edith a little. Despite having the title, Thomas has nothing else – he is bankrupt which makes him desperate to find financial support in the face of Edith’s father.
In some way, the baronet manages to seduce Edith – maybe with his eyes, attitude towards women, or a gentle character. When he makes her a proposal, the girl accepts it. Her father is not very pleased with her decision and tries to stop it by hiring a detective to find out more information about the Sharpe family. Soon after this, he is mysteriously murder, and this event pushes Edith into the arms of her fiancé.
Edith is heartbroken and is more than happy to leave New York and live with her husband in his mansion in England. Well, she also has to live with his sister who’s acting stranger and stranger. Before finally leaving to Allerdale Hall, Edith is visited by the ghost of her mother for the second time in the last fourteen years who repeats her mortifying warning about Crimson Peak. Being a positive person, she ignores the warning and expects a happy life with her new husband full of joy and delight.
From that moment, everything goes wrong, and Edith finds herself in the middle of terrible events and disgusting secrets that can drive any normal person insane. She has to pay for ignoring her mother’s message, and that price can be enormous. Everything Edith loves and cherishes is now corrupted, and the poor girl doesn’t know what is right anymore and whom she can trust. Very soon she will have all answers to even the most unpleasant questions. But does she really want to unveil the shocking truth about her new relatives?