Arrow Video, with
domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group,
will be offering a limited edition double-disc Blu-ray release of
writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s creepy Crimson Peak on Nov. 27.
The perfect word to
describe this Gothic horror tale is “creepy.”
Not just the murderous and incestuous relationship between Thomas (Tom
Hiddleston) and his sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), which is by definition
creepy (and more), but the centerpiece of del Toro’s story, Allerdale Hall, and
the mountain of warm red clay that it sits upon.
Edith (Mia Wasikowska),
the heroine of our piece, had no chance with the seductive charms of
Thomas. And once seduced, had little
hope of survival with Lucille fiendishly at work in her treacherous and
poisonous ways!
Crimson Peak is very much an underrated addition to del Toro’s
body of films, which includes the likes of the Oscar-winning The
Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone and the equally
underrated Mimic.
Arrow Video needed a
second Blu-ray disc to hold all of the bonus goodies included with this limited
edition. These bonuses are toplined by
a commentary option from filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and the newly prepared
feature-length documentary titled The House is Alive: Constructing Crimson
Peak.
There are also deleted
scenes, a previously unseen Spanish-language interview session with del Toro,
four featurettes devoted to the extensive Allerdale Hall set — “The Gothic
Corridor,” “The Scullery,” “The Red Clay Mines” and “The Limbo Fog Set” — plus
Tom Hiddleston gives us a walking tour of the set in the video titled “Beware
of Crimson Peak.”
Other featurettes
included in the mix are: “A Primer on Gothic Romance,” “The Light and Dark of
Crimson Peak,” “Hand Tailored Gothic,” “A Living Thing” and “Crimson Phantoms;”
plus there are two newly-prepared video sessions.
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