Director Guillermo del Toro’s latest dive into darkness is a beautifully constructed tale of romance in 19th-century Buffalo

Guillermo del Toro’s new film is a haunted-house spectacular and a bodice-ripping drama rolled into one gory package.

Horror show, horror tell: Guillermo del Toro’s misunderstood film revives a gothic psychological tradition, garnished with sumptuous flourishes

Crimson Peak works as an homage to 19th century gothic literature. Beyond that mission statement, however, it has trouble gaining traction. Although the film may hold a certain appeal for those who have spent long hours thumbing through the pages of ...

Review: Why Guillermo del Toro's 'Crimson Peak' Is Not Your Average Gothic Romance

Watching Del Toro's films is a pleasure because his vision is evident in every frame.

The film is Guillermo del Toro’s fussiest, most compartmentalized construction, filled with the most powerful sense of repression and delusion.

Director-co-writer Guillermo del Toro seems to have poured every Gothic literary and filmic influence into “Crimson Peak.”

A deliciously overripe celebration of gothic romance, with a game cast led by Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain

R • 1 hour 59 min • 2015

The word gothic has a long and conceptually twisty history in English. The Goths were one of many Germanic peoples who invaded the Roman empire around...

Crimson Peak dances around the issues of class, wealth, degenerate desire and the superhuman strength of the oppressed, says Charlotte O'Sullivan, while the opulent costumes and sets explode with colours so rich they deserve a good licking

Guillermo del Toro returns to his roots with a sumptuous horror steeped in 19th-century fiction and classic cinema

Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has built a reputation on his imagination: films like ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘Hellboy II’ are crammed with eyeless demons and

Guillermo del Toro's latest isn't centered on Lady Lucille Sharp, but it feels like it should be.

A review of Guillermo del Toro's house of horrors.

The set is spectacular, the cast is stellar, but Guillermo del Toro’s haunted costume drama is short on drama - and scares

Guillermo del Toro's latest plays an old-fashioned ghost story straight.

Never let it be said that Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” is not a lush Gothic ghost story. On the contrary, it just about Gothics itself to death....

Guillermo del Toro’s ravishing new movie is all chills and thrills.

Thrills, spills and chillas await in Guillermo del Toro's old-fashioned Gothic ghost story 'Crimson Peak,' starring Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston.

Crimson Peak is Guillermo del Toro's ravishing valentine to the Hammer Films subgenre of horror, Gothic in form and sensual in spirit. The movie drips with lurid style and symbolism, usually...

There's a Byronic dash to Tom Hiddleston on the screen, a brooding fatalism that in an earlier era might have made him a go-to romantic lead. But like Alan Rickman, he's been defined by Hollywood as a villain. And like Rickman, he's making the most of it. For now. Guillermo del Toro's stylishly gruesome "Crimson…

Del Toro's film looks like no other, and that look helps make up for a somewhat thin story.

Jessica Chastain stars in Guillermo del Toro's lavish Gothic horror romance, playing an Englishwoman who torments her brother's new bride.

It doesn’t always seem to know what it wants to be. But it’s still full of marvels.

Amid the piano-playing and waltzing, Del Toro isn’t afraid to include moments of extreme violence

A gothic ghost story, a Tokyo love story and a Bob Hoskins classic are among the highlights headed for new editions this month.