The summer movie season is bringing us plenty of treats, but we’re also looking forward to the gloomy, ghostly days of autumn, when Guillermo del Toro will finally open the doors to his gothic horror Crimson Peak. Four new character posters, featuring the main cast looking suitably imposing, have arrived online.
These fresh looks at the central foursome show Jessica Chastain as the frosty, troubled Lucille Sharpe, Thomas Hiddleston as her complicated brother Sir Thomas Sharpe, Mia Wasikowska as his new wife, author Edith Cushing and Charlie Hunnam as Dr. Alan McMichael, who is none too pleased about Edith’s newlywed status and her new home in the crumbling Sharpe family pile Allerdale Hall.
You know, he might just be right. For as Edith starts her life with Thomas, she discovers that the house has a very dark past, built as it is upon the titular peak (named for the red clay that even now oozes into the lower floors of the building) and that her lifelong connection to the supernatural means she’ll experience everything the place has to deliver. Especially since it might not be the house that is the focus of the haunting...
With Burn Gorman, Doug Jones, Leslie Hope and Jim Beaver also in del Toro’s latest, Crimson Peak is out on October 16.