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Allerdale Hall is a corpse of a building. The roof has a permanent hole, allowing snow to drift into the foyer and autumn leaves to carpet the grand staircase. The elevators are broken cages. The plumbing groans and bleeds—literally. The crimson clay from the mines below seeps up through the floorboards, staining the snow red outside and the bathwater inside. This "crimson peak" of the title is a double entendre: it refers both to the red-tipped mountain and the blood that constantly oozes from the house’s wounds.

While initially marketed as a conventional horror movie, leading to a somewhat polarized reception upon release, Crimson Peak has since enjoyed a critical renaissance. It is now rightly recognized not as a scary movie in the traditional sense, but as a sumptuous, visually staggering adult fairy tale. It is a film about the past, about the ghosts that haunt us, and the indelible scars of love. Crimson Peak -2015-

Many viewers were misled by marketing that framed it as a "haunted house" horror. In reality, it is a Victorian melodrama in the vein of Jane Eyre or Rebecca. Allerdale Hall is a corpse of a building

The centerpiece of the film’s visual identity is Allerdale Hall. Del Toro called it a "living, breathing organism." The roof has a hole, allowing snow and autumn leaves to drift into the foyer. The walls bleed red clay. It is a house that decomposes alongside the family that inhabits it. Every frame of the interior is cluttered with Victoriana, candlelight, and shadows, creating a suffocating atmosphere that traps the characters in the past. The plumbing groans and bleeds—literally

Chastain delivers a performance of chilling intensity. Lucille is the true villain of the piece, a woman warped by a lifetime of isolation and abuse. She moves like a