Crimson Peak review

A young woman marries a mysterious Englishman and returns to his isolated house.

Guillermo del Toro, the director behind films like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone, returns to the horror genre after the spectacle of Pacific Rim for an old fashioned ghost story.

Crimson Peak is one of the most gorgeously appointed films I’ve seen in years. The costumes are incredible and every design element is superbly well realised. That all comes together in the house where most of the action takes place, Allerdale Hall.