Guillermo del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK has a New Title and Release Date

Guillermo del Toro's upcoming horror film Crimson Peak has been retitled Haunted Peak. The film is set to start shooting at Pinewood Toronto Studios on February 10th, 2014, and will be released in theaters in April of 2015.

The gothic haunted house thriller stars Charlie Hunnam, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska. I'm really excited about this movie, and I think Del Toro is going to be in his element while making it. I'm hoping this might be one of the best films that he's done since since Pan's Labyrinth. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed his Hellboy movies, and Pacific Rim, but they aren't his best work. His best work comes from the smaller more independent films that he's made. 

Del Toro has talked a lot about the film in the past, explaining the film is “a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story," and that it will allow him "to play with the conventions of the genre [he knows and loves], and at the same time subvert the old rules." He goes into more detail in this statement,

"It’s the turn of the century. So it’s at the turn of the century and half of the movie takes place in America, and the other half takes place in a crumbling mansion in Cumbria. And basically it’s a ghost story and gothic romance, trying to subvert the rules of the usual gothic romance. It’s very much... the first half is a love story, then that love story turns darker. And it’s at the same time a ghost story. I’m working at this moment with Lucinda Clarkson who is a really great playwright from the UK. She has the proper degree of perversity and intelligence to turn it into something interesting to watch. It’s sort of a very compelling version of the classic gothic romance, where you have the spookiness and the windswept landscape that dooms the characters, you know?"