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Crimson Peak is a gothic horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim). The Mexican filmmaker, who has long been a supporter of the Canadian film industry, shot Crimson Peak in Toronto, Hamilton, and Kingston. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver.

When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak.

“Crimson Peak is the ghost-story equivalent of Pan’s Labyrinth,” del Toro explains. “It has the combination of several genres, and the fact that we are packing the punch of a traditional ghost story with the class and beauty of a classic. The elements for successful horror films often come hand-in-hand with a religious set of beliefs. They deal with the supernatural in a particular religious way: demons, damnation, hell. In a gothic romance you get a great love story, you get supernatural elements, you get really spooky scenes…all those things combined make a beautiful, gorgeous-looking movie.”

Crimson Peak is rated 14A.