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Academics have written on Crimson Peak as a deconstruction of Victorian femininity—Edith's survival depends on rejecting the passive "gothic heroine" mold. The "text" is rich with color symbolism (red clay = decay + passion), costume design (butterfly motifs = entrapment), and architecture (the house as a body, breathing and rotting).

Del Toro wears his influences on his bloody sleeve. Crimson Peak is a direct descendent of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (the madwoman in the attic) and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (the ghost of the first wife lingering over the second). However, where those stories keep the horror psychological, del Toro makes it visceral. Crimson Peak -2015-

Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story begins in Buffalo, New York, with (Mia Wasikowska), an aspiring author who is haunted by the ghost of her mother. Her mother's spectral warning is simple yet cryptic: "Beware of Crimson Peak". Academics have written on Crimson Peak as a

Represents violence, passion, and the inescapable past. Crimson Peak is a direct descendent of Charlotte