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Guillermo del Toro plays around with gothic horror in his deliciously creepy haunted-house story Crimson Peak, from 2015. When 1890s American feminist Mia Wasikowska marries Tom Hiddleston’s British aristocrat, he takes her home to his remote and ominous family manor, where sinister doings begin to haunt her.

Del Toro’s tongue is firmly in his cheek, as is that of the marvelous cast — also including Jessica Chastain as Hiddleston’s Morticia Addams–esque sister — who walk a razor-fine line between straight dramatic performances and over-the-top furniture-chewing melodrama. And what furniture there is to chew, all velvet curtains and overstuffed armchairs and four-postered, flying-buttressed beds. Crimson Peak is great good fun, pure popcorn entertainment of the highest, eeriest order.

(Read my 2015 review.)

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