An R-rated Gothic horror film from the modern master of Gothic horror? Yes, please. We have to wait just a little while longer for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, but Oct 16th makes good sense Halloween-wise and, coincidentally, lands the 3rd of the 3 Amigos in a hot spot Oscar-wise.
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds…and remembers.
“Set in Cumbria, in a crumbling mansion in a largely rural and mountainous region of northern England in the 19th century, young author Edith Cushing (Wasikowska) discovers that her charming new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston) is not who he appears to be.” (wiki)
No? Well, Sir Thomas Sharpe appears to me to be suspiciously supernatural and dodgy af, so I’ll be shocked and disappointed if he’s not.
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Yo, what’s with all the hate for Pacific Rim in this thread? I’m a big del Toro fan myself (I have the most love for him out of the Amigos, though I think Cuaron is the superior filmmaker), and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Pacific Rim. Certainly the most fun I had with a movie in 2013 – brilliantly over-the-top fight scenes, top-notch VFX, a perfectly-assembled, deliciously hammy cast, and a gleeful willingness to embrace its genre trappings.
Honestly, if you didn’t much care for PR, I can’t imagine what you’d see in Crimson Peak, judging by the trailer. Same pure camp, different genre flavor. I don’t see it being a big Oscar contender outside of the techs, but I’m with Ryan: push this one hard, we need some more bite in the Academy’s selections.
On the 3 Amigos…
1. del Toro
2. Cuarón
3. Iñarritu
This trailer was great, and really got me wanting to see the movie.
Pan’s Labyrinth, the best film of 2006, was nominated for 6 Oscars, one of which was Foreign Language so obviously we can count that out for Crimson Peak. The other 5 were Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction (Production Design), Makeup, Best Original Screenplay and Original Score. I don’t see why the film couldn’t be nominated for any those other 5. We know those branches can be very idiosyncratic. It also has chances in Costume and Visual Effects. Other categories I’m more sceptical about.
But even if it doesn’t get any nominations, it looks good to my eyes, and that’s all that matters.
The only del Toro film I ever really liked was Pan’s Labyrinth and everything else was just okay. If he could ever let go of his fanboy obsessions and explored other avenues I think he could be great but it doesn’t look like that will happen any time soon.
If I had to rank the “3 Amigos” I’d go Inarittu, Cuaron, del Toro.
[Trailer only]
I must have been purely in minority here.
I had been expecting something more frigid, more fiendish, more classically diabolic, etc., from this trailer — or rather, despite the trailer/teaser. I meant: something to otherwise have made me feel that way prior to actually experiencing it in theater and in full feature version. . . . I just didn’t find it in this trailer. . . . [Make no mistake: I was not expecting any cheap scares, blood and gore, or anything campy either — I know who he is].
I knew it was #just #a #trailer but somehow it just didn’t do magic or rub me in the right way as seemingly did many others here. (#In full version, it, though, might manage to more or less satisfy me while somehow disappointing some others whom initially were being pretty excited about it. But it’s in a sense irrelevant for now.)
Perhaps, it was simply a curious case of a relatively tiny laptop screen as opposed to the elephantine one in theater; so, I’m going to experience and #feel it once again on the silver screen, within the dark and, hopefully, *all alone (*reading: literally, only a few other viewers sharing the space [I usually picked the workdays or nighttimes to avoid big crowds and anything that might defeat the purpose of escapism (in as much a pure sense as possible]). . . . I’m hoping, then the magic will work . . . .
(Sorry for sounding like I was trying to crash the party.)
OMG, I SOOOOO want to see this! Judging from it’s premise, however, I don’t see this being nominated in the top six categories (Picture, Director, etc.) I do see it getting nominated in these categories:
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Cinematography
Best Sound Editing (possible, but not definite)
Best Sound Mixing (possible, but not definite)
Best Visual Effects (possible, but not definite)
*** If Inarritu wins Oscar or Screenplay this year.
In 2006, when Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men was nominated, who would have thought that among the 3 amigos, del Toro would be the last to win an Oscar?
Tye-Grr… I never said he won an Oscar for “The Others”. He won it for “The Sea Inside”, a few years after… Best Foreign Film
Also: Great use of “Red Right Hand.” Hope it’s in the movie as well.
Great cast! Great trailer! Looks like Del Toro is back to form after disappointing “Pacific Rim.”
Wouldn´t it be special if Del Toro got the DGA next year?
Maybe it’s because I’ve only seen it on my phone, but I wasn’t terribly impressed by this trailer. It just felt like a very standard haunted-house story with a good pedigree. Admittedly, it might just be a meh trailer, but for the moment I’m less bullish on this than before.
@Roberto- Oh, thanks, you two are right! My apologies! I totally forgot that he made that film. I don’t know why I totally blanked on that.
I’m really looking forward to ‘Crimson Peak’ and ‘Regression’, and hopefully both will be great. Both directors could use comeback films after underwhelming outings (‘Pacific Rim for Del Toro, ‘Agora’ for Amenabar).
Amenabar won the Foreign Film Oscar for The Sea Inside.
@Jesus Alonzo- Amenabar didn’t earn an Oscar or even a nomination; he has a BAFTA nom for the screenplay for ‘The Others’ though. del Toro has an Oscar nom for Original Screenplay for ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Fillm.
I’m excited for both films, but especially ‘Crimson Peak’. That trailer is GORGEOUS. And what an amazing cast!
I’ve never been all that fond of Del Torro’s work – but this looks brilliant in so many ways. I hope it’s as good as the trailer promises. If so – we could very well see a gothic horror film earn a BP nom.
Not only we have del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” coming, we also have Amenabar’s “Regression” in the pipeline too, with a trailer that makes me think his offer is an iteration of “Rosemary’s Baby”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNxl56_ExWY
So, basically, it’ll be interesting which one comes out as winner in the clash of these two films. Let’s not forget two facts… Amenabar is the one that earned an Oscar and the man behind “The Others” (which was the third horror film he made after “Thesis” and his psychological “Open your Eyes”).
perfect trailer and movie it seems. marvelous director and actors. exciting !!!
best costume design
makeup
visual effects
production design
and maybe cinematography
Hiddleston, Chastain, Wasikowska & Hunnam (yes, Hunnam 🙂 ) in a Del Toro gothic stew? I’m in with both feet.
Too bad we have to wait until October – I want it NOW.
I agree, Pan’s Labyrinth is amazing. The only real disappointment I had with Guillermo came with Pacific Rim, which I found to be an utter mess.
(John Cassavetes in RB being the gold standard of course).
John Cassevetes gave us another effing sick-brilliant turn-of-the-screwy horror performance in Di Palma’s undervalued ramped-up spin on Carrie-esque telekinesis in The Fury (1978)
what’s up with you pigeon-holers doubting Del Toro’s eventual inevitable place at the Oscars? 🙂
How soon we forget. Del Toro was Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Pan’s Labyrinth… you know? that little gothic horror movie that has A SCORE OF 98 on Metacritic?
98! That’s Boyhood territory.
Ryan, I’m all for it!
I also just saw the trailer for Regression, the new Alejandro Amenabar thriller. That’s another one I’ve been waiting for long too…
I’m getting Rebecca vibes too. Rebecca is a fabulous movie; one of the best all-time Gothic films. This could either be very good or very bad…I’m not sure there’s anything in between. Love Chastain, love Mia, love Tom (who I feel is way more talented than Eddie). So true on Harrison Ford, who is a great actor. When will he get his honorary Oscar?
This looks a bajillion times more promising than I ever imagined it might be. I kind of wish it was in 3D!!!
As for Oscars, I wouldn’t count it out–especially in the techs. The cinematography alone looks worthy, but Costumes, Production and Makeup & Hairstyling are all possibilities. If the film is successful overall, it would be fresh as hell to see something SO genre in the BP field.
I can never get enough Gothic horror or haunted house movies. Add in Guillermo Del Toro, Jessica Chastain, and Tom Hiddleston and there is NO WAY I’ll miss this one.
Jessica Chastain in particular seems to be channeling Judith Anderson in “Rebecca”. Me likey.
Well, Hiddleston certainly has a way of, shall we say, overdoing it at times. Hopefully his performance isn’t giving away the twists from frame 1! You know who did a really nice, subtle job with that kind of part actually? Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath.
(John Cassavetes in RB being the gold standard of course).
I’m not sure if Del Toro will land in the Oscar race like his two friends
he won’t if nobody ever floats the possibility or entertains the notion. 🙂
this time of year, every year, I get fairly fed up with the way all of us are so quick and cavalier about throwing so many fine movies under the bus, so by the time January rolls around we’re back in the musty wax museum of “oscar-friendly” once again.
in 2015, I’m going to try hard not to hold back from being as goddamned oscar-unfriendly as I can reasonably get away with.
We might end up right back where we always hit the wall on Oscar Nomination Morning 2016, but at least we will have had a little more excitement around here throughout the preceding 10 months, yes?
I’m not sure if Del Toro will land in the Oscar race like his two friends but he’s the most visionary of the three and this trailer confirms it. At times, the art direction reminded me of Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. If only Charlie Hunnam wasn’t in it…