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The release of Frankenstein marks a full-circle moment for Guillermo del Toro. The filmmaker has long treated monsters not as villains, but as reflections of grief, longing, and love turned sour. But years before Frankenstein’s stitched-together heart began to beat, there was another story where beauty and brutality intertwined in the darkness: Crimson Peak. Marketed in 2015 as a straightforward haunted house horror movie, Crimson Peak is something far more layered in actuality. It’s a decaying Gothic romance — a story where love and death are indistinguishable, where the house itself seems to breathe, and where the most dangerous monsters are the ones you can touch.
