Dilapidated Allendale Manor features a hole in its roof allowing the elements to freely enter the colossal entry foyer. The set design (Tom Sanders) and costumes (Kate Hawley) are truly spectacular and among the best ever seen, especially for a horror movie. Fortunately, that's where del Toro and his team excel. In other words, it's not very frightening and the viewer's enjoyment is totally based on the atmosphere. It plays like a re-imagined script from one of those old 1940's or 50's movies that I watched on Friday nights as a kid. It would be pretty easy to recap the balance of the story, but that is actually the film's weakness. The elder Cushing senses something is "off" about Sharpe and his sister and traveling companion, Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain), but the strong-minded Edith soon finds herself waltzing and blushing with Sir Thomas. Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) seeks investors for his "clay harvester", a machine he designed to automate what now takes many men and much hard labor.
Things change when a mysterious stranger sweeps into town. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam, "Sons of Anarchy"). Edith has remained steadfast in her independence despite the advances of her lifelong friend, the handsome Dr. Tip of the cap to del Toro for his tip of the cap to the horror film great Peter Cushing. She grows into an independent young woman (played by Mia Wasikowska) being raised by her successful self-made-man father Curtis Cushing (played by Jim Beaver, "Justified"). The story begins around the turn of the 20th century as young Edith has just experienced her first family tragedy, the passing of her mother.
#CRIMSON GRAY ROMANCE ENDING MOVIE#
She is explaining her most recent writing effort to a publisher, but the line also represents the movie we are watching ghosts appear (some grisly ones at that), but they certainly aren't the focus. The line is spoken by our lead character Edith, who is striving to write like her literary idol, Mary Shelley. It's a story with ghosts." Leave it to writer/director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006) to make this distinction.
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