It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The current rating for this film is totally unjustified. It should, of course, be zero. Where to begin? The catastrophic script, which sounds like it was written by a creatively-challenged eleven-year-old glue-sniffer trying to cram in every cliché ever regurgitated by Hollywood onto our screens over the last ten decades or so? The utterly ridiculous plot, so badly cobbled together from a handful of implausible premises that it actually makes your eyes water to follow it onscreen? The cringe-makingly horrendous acting, complete with terrible accents from at least two of the main protagonists? The lurid sets that look like they came straight from some cheesy 90s computer game? The bubble-gum-coloured CGI ghosts that would look at home in even cheesier computer games than those of the sets? The hackneyed score that punctuates every move of every leaf, doorknob and eyebrow and that we seem to have heard thousands upon thousands of times before? Yes, folks, it's all here. A true compendium of all the don'ts of filmmaking. And then one asks: how oh how does such unadulterated garbage make it to the big screen? Fudge knows. This is the cinematic equivalent of a very cheap, very rusty 1950s ghost-train ride in a very rundown fairground managed by illiterate crooks, only it comes disguised under a thick veneer of glossy technicolor paint to fool the one or two under-sixes who might just be able to watch this plastic cheeseburger of a film to the end without throwing their arms up in total disgust.

I re-watched Crimson Peak and I liked it again. Yes, the story itself is predictable but the fine actors and especially the superb visuals give enough goodies for the connoisseur of Gothic horror. Director Guillermo del Toro knows his business, and the main actors Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston play their roles well. A good watch for you if you like such movies as The Woman in Black, The Others, A Cure For Wellness, The Awakening, Fall of the House of Usher etc.For the visuals a nine, the acting and directing a 7 and for the story a 5. Makes a neat 7.

I enjoyed this film as it has that Guillermo Del Toro style to it which means some very good visuals. He crafted a very lovely period piece that injects us into a world where things are not as they seem and where one wonders who to trust. That being said, when revelations were made, there was not anything all that surprising and I honestly thought the ending would entail something cooler. Still, it was a pretty good story, just nothing that is really going to be making you gasp in surprise. The house within the film looks incredible and is a house that I would love to explore and they actually apparently made the entire house; unfortunately, they promptly tore it down after filming to make room in the studio.The story has a young woman recount the first time she had seen a ghost. It happened to be her mother and the apparition carried with it a warning to stay away from Crimson Peak. Years later the young woman meets a strange man from Europe. He is trying to garner funds so that he may create a device to get the red clay that resides on his land out of the earth so that it may be processed and used. The young woman's father scoffs at the idea and is immediately suspicious of the stranger from another land. This stranger soon begins to warm up to the daughter which makes the father more suspicious. Well, in the end the young woman ends up married to the stranger and they head off to he and his sister's very dilapidated mansion. During her stay there she sees things within the walls as the very house seems to have a life of its own, but the true terror may reside in the heart of her husband! The acting is really good. I liked the guy who played the father as I liked how he was immediately suspicious. Tom Hiddlestone was great as the mysterious stranger too. The true star though was that really warped house they created as it looked incredibly creepy. A house that seems ready to collapse at any time. Honestly, I am surprised the character of Edith did not just turn around once she set foot inside that thing. Looks like it would be cool to explore, but there is a freaking hole in the ceiling where it constantly is raining debris down below! So I enjoyed the film, would have been better with a bit more supernatural flair to it. It does have supernatural elements to it, but I was expecting it to be more supernatural than it turned out to be. It is Guillermo though so his movies generally have a look to them that can make up for the fact that sometimes the story is lacking. This one's look does that as does the acting in it. I am pretty sure most figured out what was going on fairly quickly, but it is just a matter of how it plays out.

This movie reminded me of a Hammer film or a Vincent Price Edger Allen Poe film. It was well acted and the set designs and special effects were excellent. The red clay looked like blood coming from the earth. This is a very original movie. In fact I have never seen a movie on this subject matter before. The "crimson peak" looked eerie covered in snow. I would recommend this movie.