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Many are going to make the trek to their local cinema this weekend, hoping to see a spooky Halloween film, and that’s not what this is, or what it wants to be. This is a love story cloaked in a darkly vibrant aesthetic with a sub-plot involving ghosts – except not really. The ghosts here, as is blatantly stated at the start of the film, are metaphors for the past. They’re there to represent the gruesome nature of what happed at Crimson Peak, and in that light the film becomes a whole lot …show more content…
If you’ve never experienced a del Toro film, then you’re life is not yet complete. Every single solitary film he’s ever made has looked magnificent, even so, I don’t think he’s ever made a better looking film than this. It’s truly awe-inspiring the way he’s able to make this film simultaneously dreary yet vibrant. The towns are dark and drab, but the blood and clay adds a vibrancy to the film that is impossible not to fall in love with. It’s also an intelligent plot device, the clay, it gives way to many moments of confusion due to intentional