8 Years Later, Guillermo del Toro Defends his Most Underrated Horror Movie
Briefly

"The thing that will always, pun intended, haunt that movie is that it was sold as a horror movie. But I remember distinctly, when we had the meetings [about promotion], they were all targeted toward getting the horror audience for the opening weekend..."
"I was saying, 'You should promote the romance, and you should promote the mystery. The last thing you want to do is promote it as horror,' he told in a recent interview."
"Looking back on the film eight years later, after it's accumulated a following of 'people who love it at an almost molecular level,' del Toro finds a surprising companion with Alex Garland's..."
"Made in the style of lavish gothic movies like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, Crimson Peak is a deliciously macabre romance that sees del Toro working at the peak of his creative prowess."
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