In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers
Guillermo del Toro's homage to 1950s Hammer films is one of the most beautiful and striking old-fashioned Gothic horror movies in recent memory - but all the carefully orchestrated color schemes and dark corridors in the world can't accelerate the slow patches, or make us care about lead characters who are either dim-witted or boring or both. Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston star. - Two stars