𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞’s review published on Letterboxd:
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I love Guillermo. And I love the idea of most of his movies, and moments, scenes and images from many of them, but I think Crimson Peak may be the only film of his that I love from beginning to end. It’s just a flat out masterpiece, a love letter, as all of GdT’s movies are, that never once feels like it has a misstep. Like, Shape of Water is one that immediately comes to mind. It’s made specifically for Monster Kids like me, a wild homage to Universal Horror among other things...but precisely because it is also concerned with quite a bit more, it really doesn’t operate on any level (aesthetically or otherwise) that made us fall in love with those old movies. Whereas Crimson Peak is a Gothic Romance, first and foremost, with an AMAZING setting, and yet it still 100% delivers on being a ghost movie with dope ghosts.
To all my fellow Killer POV/Shock Waves fans (EX-fan, here) remember when Crimson Peak came out (let’s just reflect on that here, what a wonderful time at the theater) and Rebekah McKendry and Mike Mendez leveled criticism against the movie based purely on the fact that the chairs used in the movie cost more than their budgets on their Christmas anthologies and Syfy spider movies? Fucking chairs. And fellow cohost RobG’s ambivalence toward this MASTERPIECE was because the...CG ghosts looked “bad”? Bruh, I just watched this movie here in the year of our Lord 2thousand&twenty, and seriously only the first specter of the mother, looks remotely fake. The sprits that haunt the halls of Allerdale look AFREAKINGMAZING, some of the most iconic haints in memory. But I rag on these complaints because they’re the same complaints I heard from EVERYONE, critics and friends, in 2015. People willing to overlook a Gothic delight, with sumptuous Argento-esque colour pallet, and a cozy familiar and still totally satisfying story ripped right from a hundred “Lady Running Away From a Spooky House” paperbacks. Not to mention every other flawless piece of the movie’s craftwork.
Also I love the character of Mr. Holly, as portrayed by Burn Goreman. It’s such a weird thing to pick out but he’s precisely the kind of walk on character role that I am drawn to in any movie.
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