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The Massive Gothic Set Design In ‘Crimson Peak’ #SDCC
Legendary will be taking Crimson Peak, Krampus and Warcraft to its July 11 panel in Hall H at Comic-Con in San Diego.
Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a gothic horror story starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam.
Ahead of the panel, Legendary shares the stunning new photo that shows the astounding set design in this massive ghost story set to release on October 16th, 2015.
In Crimson Peak, “When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak.”
Guillermo del Toro explains to EW that people shouldn’t expect a haunted house movie…
“It’s not that at all,” he says. “The house is a rotting representation of the family that has inhabited it — it’s like a cage, a killing jar that you use to kill butterflies. The house basically is a sinister, sinister trap.”
Attempting something a bit different, del Toro explains that he hopes to flip the trope of the horror of marriage on its head.
“[Usually] the marriage is sort of the climax or the high point of a story,” the director says. “I tried on ‘Crimson’ to say that the horror starts after the marriage. This girl wakes up in a strange place, not her own home, not her own bed, and she little by little realizes that she knows less about the man she married than one would expect. The curious thing is the love story really starts when they acknowledge that darkness.”
In terms of the film’s cinematography, del Toro also reveals that he was trying to do the opposite of what other filmmakers would do.
“Normally when people address this period, they go for desaturated colors, steel gray, steel blue, or sepia,” he says. “They are trying to evoke old photographs or silver tinting. I didn’t want that. I wanted the movie to feel lush.”
You can see exactly what del Toro is talking about in the below Crimson Peak trailer.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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