Guillermo del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK Is 'Shockingly Different' for Him
Director Guillermo del Toro has finished Pacific Rim and is preparing to start production on his gothic haunted house horror thriller Crimson Peak. He starts shooting the film in February with Charlie Hunnam, Mia Wasikowska, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jessica Chastain.
I'm very excited to see what exactly Del Toro is planning for the film. He's talked about it in the past, and in a recent interview he reveals that it's "shockingly different" from anything he's ever done before for American audiences. Here's what he had to say to STYD:
Crimson Peak is a much, much, much smaller movie, completely character-driven. It's an adult movie, an R-rated movie, pretty adult. Shockingly different from anything I've done in the English language. Normally, when I go to do a movie in America for the spectacle and younger audience, for Blade or whatever. This movie's tone is scary and it's the first time I get to do a movie more akin to what I do in the Spanish movies.
The thing I do in those movies is recontextualization, take a movie and then move it into a completely different place. Like a Gothic and then move it into the Spanish Civil War. This is a Gothic romance, haunted house, in the north of England.
He then goes on to discuss the tone, saying that it
"has moments that are very visceral, physical violence. You're in this sort of sedate romance and then there is this brutal moment where you're like, 'Whoa!' And it has a lot of kinky moments. The only kinky moment I've ever shot is the leg fuck in The Devil's Backbone. [laughs] This has a little more kinkiness than that."
Sounds like this is going to be a badass horror film!