25. Crimson Peak

This Halloween we’re delving into a horror we like to call “marrying a hot stranger who’s a walking red flag.” Guillermo del Toro’s gothic-horror melodrama CRIMSON PEAK was a formative theater-going experience for teenage Marin and a decade later she’s happy to report that it still rules. We have a lot to say about its pulpiness, violence, and romance, plus some tangents about Ryan Murphy and Charlie Hunnam.   

 

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Secondary texts referenced:

Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Longlegs (2024) dir. Osgood Perkins

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë