endocathexis:

Costumes in Crimson Peak (2015)

bills-skarsgards:

Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime… There are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those they never go away.

Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo Del Toro

elizabeths-banks:

“Lucille (Jessica Chastain) is actually part of the house. They’re connected. The house is history, it’s the past, it’s her childhood, it’s everything. And she cannot separate that. Her wardrobe has pieces of architecture of the house embroidered in lace,” Del Toro said. “We very deliberately made her the same color as the walls. The walls are the same color as her eyes. We wanted to make them have the color of the house.”

beneciodeltoros:

One colour that I am very particular about is obviously the red because all the reds in the movie, which are very very few, all lead to the same past, to the ghosts, to the crime and the passion and the secrets of Crimson Peak.

Red is a really brutal colour because its very voracious. Even the most subtle red burns and obliterates everything else. I was trying to make that red the past. To have that past seep through the floor, seep through the snow and reveal its true nature. Crime never stays hidden in classic romance.

I felt it was important for the ghost to be rather unique in appearance, and I chose to colour-code them in a way that has never been done before. The ghosts are buried in the clay, like the bog people in The Mummy, and I thought it would be interesting to treat them in the same colour as the clay under the house which is a bright crimson. The house is built over clay mines, and the clay is a bright red. They are visually coded and the only red in the entire movie. Everyone who has a bit of red has something to do with the ghosts. The rest of the movie does not have that colour at all.

– Guillermo Del Toro on the use of red in Crimson Peak

supremeleaderkylorens:

Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime… There are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away.

esmysqualor:

_{Crimson Peak (2015) — cinematography by Dan Laustsen}

collinsrps:

The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all. || Crimson Peak (2015)

mikaeled:

I had to go to a very sad place. [Guillermo del Toro] understood what it was to open that up in me. And he kind of came over and put his arm around me and he said, “My dear, you’re a great collaborator.” It just makes you feel like– You just feel safe and happy and you don’t feel like you’re being manipulated and used as a prop. He respects and honors you and honors the toll that things sometimes take.
Jessica Chastain behind the scenes of Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
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supremeleaderkylorens:

Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime… There are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away.

elizabeths-banks:

JESSICA CHASTAIN as Lucille Sharpe in Crimson Peak (2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro)