CRIMSON PEAK

Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro

Starring by: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Castain, Charlie Hunnam

Legendary Film

When I attend the writer’s gathering at Gandaria City, my friend Ari Keling told me that this film was awesome. It had delicate approach for horror and effect similar as ‘Mama’ movie. His face showed the flare as he talked, that’s why I went to the cinema to know more about it. When I watched the Director...yup, it guarantees this film a lot...Del Toro almost never fails to make good movie with his style...

Young Edith Cushing was haunted by ghost that warned her about Crimson Peak. Fourteen years later Edith became a novelist who loves to write about ghost story (it reminds me of ourselves, did we Mr. Keling?) but the Editor suggested that she must write love story. For that cause, Edith fall in love with a new guy in town, Thomas Sharpe, who apparently came to their town to asked Carter Cushing, Edith’s father, to invest on his machine...

Carter refused Sharpe’s offering and found out more about Thomas Sharpe and Lucille, his sister, secret and gave them money to stay away from Edith. But someone killed Carter in the bathroom. Now there was something funny as I watch it, in the earlier scene when Carter was killed the sink still full and the water still running, but after he checked the strange sound and turned back it’s empty. Later on when I saw another scene where Carter got killed it’s once again full and the tap was still on.

After Carter’s death, Edith and Thomas getting closer and closer, though Alan McMichael, Edith childhood friend, tried so hard to warn her. She won’t listen, who can’t refuse handsome man with eye full of sorrow anyway? And after getting marriage with Sharpe she move to England to stay on a big old house which belong to Sharpe’s family.

There, she experienced many strange things that got to do with ghost. Edith tried so hard to investigate the mystery until she found the truth about Thomas. Her husband apparently had many wife who died after being brought to Sharpe's castle. One of the records, it obviously left by those girls, also warned Edith about the killing for the money and she shouldn’t drink the tea that provide by Lucille because she put the poison in it and that caused their death.

And talking about the poisonous tea, it made her cough in bleed in the middle of the night so the blood appears on her pillow, she also wipes some of it to the pillow next to her, but when she got up to investigate the strange noise the blood stain was gone.    

I like the beauty of the picture that Del Toro made on this film, though it doesn’t make any sense to me. Like the leaves that constantly fall from the hall on the roof into the great hall, which impossible considering it was winter and no trees kept it leaves in that season. And what about butterflies? It obvious that the butterflies were tropical and those wouldn’t survive in unheated room during the winter.

But it ended very perfectly...I like the part when Edith had to defend herself with small knife against Lucille that holds the butcher knife. Jessica Castain and Tom Huddleston plays very well as a partner of crime characters, while Mia compose it to fill the puzzle to give perfect picture and role play. The idea about horror story in the Victorian’s era suites me as well because I think Crimson Peak was a combination of Frankenstein’s Marry Shelley and Bram Stoker’s Dracula but it had more element of feminist in it...

After watch this movie, I’m sure you agree with me, “Ghost does exist...”