Guillermo Del Toro to direct "Crimson Peak" (or not, you never know...)

[Sawyer]

Reading good things about this...

 

[redhawk23]

Today I revisited GDT's "The Devil's Backbone" which I have on DVD from Criterion. Watching the film and in particular the special features in which del Toro discusses a lot of his thoughts on Gothic Romance and ghost stories has me even more stoked for Crimson Peak than I already was.

 

[Boom]

Devil's Backbone is such a great film.

 

[redhawk23]

Personally I'd say its his best written film.

 

[redhawk23]

Del Toro interview in Variety.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/guillermo-del-toro-crimson-peak-monsters-1201603998/

 

[StarLord]

Tom Hiddleston was great on Graham Norton last night when he was there promoting Crimson Peak.

 

[Loki882]

Is Tom ever NOT good in interviews? But I cannot recall a time that he wasn't.

 

[chaseter]

No reviews 4 days out? Concerning?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

If the reviews aren't allowed until Wednesday I think that would be not a great sign. I don't know if the embargo is until Wednesday though.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Great interview with GDT:

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[Fallen Angel]

The Wrap's review:

Scares Up Creepy Haunted Mansion Thrills http://goo.gl/1Jz9B4


AV Club:

http://www.avclub.com/review/guiller...ault:1efault

 

[Fallen Angel]

THR 'Crimson Peak': Film Review http://thr.cm/1f5N3J

Variety's- CrimsonPeak http://bit.ly/1FVop1X


The Film Stage ‘Crimson Peak’: http://bit.ly/1jmuvhU

 

[Rocketman]

This is looking like a quintessential Del Toro film and will have a cult following as opposed to huge box office results. The former is obviously more important in the long term, and I think this type of film is what he should be aiming for from now on. I loved Pacific Rim, but it's not his thing. I don't strike him as a big budget Hollywood studio director, and audiences seem to agree. He needs to stick to smaller, romantic horror passion projects.

 

[Lord]

Pacific Rim didn't fail due to the people who saw it having disliked it though. He has yet to actualy work on an extablished popular franchise, the closest he got was with Blade II, which interistingly enough, was the most popular of the 3 Blade films. Give him the likes of Transformers or Pirates of the Caribbean and his career would probably get a major boost.

 

[Serpico Jones]

Seems like the early reviews have been lukewarm.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'm about to go see the film in a bit.

 

[Rocketman]

Pacific Rim didn't fail due to the people who saw it having disliked it though. He has yet to actualy work on an extablished popular franchise, the closest he got was with Blade II, which interistingly enough, was the most popular of the 3 Blade films. Give him the likes of Transformers or Pirates of the Caribbean and his career would probably get a major boost.

I agree that it would give him a boost, but yuck, no thanks.

Blade II is obviously the best of the three, 100% agreed.

I think Del Toro is in the top 5 directors of his generation and is a true artist. I have yet to dislike any of his work.

Ultimately, whatever project makes him genuinely happy is good news for us, with no studio interference being the ideal situation, but I'll see anything he makes... even Transformers or Pirates (as much as it would kill me). I just think he rocks.

 

[terry78]

I figure a lot of brats are going to go see this thing expecting massive jump scares and what not and when it turns out to just be more atmospheric Hammer horror they word of mouth to their friends, "**** wasn't even scary, don't go see it."

 

[Napoleon]

I figure a lot of brats are going to go see this thing expecting massive jump scares and what not and when it turns out to just be more atmospheric Hammer horror they word of mouth to their friends, "**** wasn't even scary, don't go see it."

Unfortunately that may be the case. GDT is one of the few directors working today who understands true horror. Chris Stuckmann did a really good video called 'The Problem with Horror Movies Today' that goes deeper into this issue.

 

[Rocketman]

The only problem with horror today is the reliance on gore and the lack of emotional investment in any characters - stuff that has always been a problem for this genre since the 70's and 80's. There are plenty of examples of horror being perfectly fine in this era, and any critic insisting otherwise is only focusing on the mainstream commercial stuff and not independent films, and isn't a real critic.

I think the 90's were the worst decade ever for the horror genre. It's gotten waaay better since then. The 90's consisted of zero atmosphere, a focus on teenage high school angst, crappy and forgettable scores, crappy soundtracks with bands like Creed... It was just generally awful. Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine... It was just a total bummer of a decade. It wasn't until the decade was wrapping up in '99 that we got Sixth Sense and Blair Witch.

I think 2000-2015 has given us some of the best horror movies EVER, easily. But the 70's and 80's are still the two best decades, in my opinion. That whole era of Stephen King, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Clive Barker, Sam Raimi, George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci... we'll never get a revolutionary group like that ever again. That was like a nuclear bomb of creativity went off in the film industry.

 

[Black Narcissus]

The only problem with horror today is the reliance on gore and the lack of emotional investment in any characters - stuff that has always been a problem for this genre since the 70's and 80's. There are plenty of examples of horror being perfectly fine in this era, and any critic insisting otherwise is only focusing on the mainstream commercial stuff and not independent films, and isn't a real critic.

I think the 90's were the worst decade ever for the horror genre. It's gotten waaay better since then. The 90's consisted of zero atmosphere, a focus on teenage high school angst, crappy and forgettable scores, crappy soundtracks with bands like Creed... It was just generally awful. Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine... It was just a total bummer of a decade. It wasn't until the decade was wrapping up in '99 that we got Sixth Sense and Blair Witch.

I think 2000-2015 has given us some of the best horror movies EVER, easily. But the 70's and 80's are still the two best decades, in my opinion. That whole era of Stephen King, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Clive Barker, Sam Raimi, George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci... we'll never get a revolutionary group like that ever again. That was like a nuclear bomb of creativity went off in the film industry.

Eh, I'm not so sure about this.

 

[Napoleon]

We still got some good horror directors:

GDT
Sam Raimi
James Wan
Jennifer Kent
Others I probably don't know about.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Great interview with GDT:

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Part two is up, but can't link cause of language. His quote about directing is priceless.

He also spoke about being really depressed about Mountains of Madness.

 

[Sawyer]

We still got some good horror directors:

GDT
Sam Raimi
James Wan
Jennifer Kent
Others I probably don't know about.

Does Raimi still have it, though?

 

[Octoberist]

We still got some good horror directors:

GDT
Sam Raimi
James Wan
Jennifer Kent
Others I probably don't know about.

And the dude who directed 'It Follows'.