8 Years Later, Guillermo del Toro Defends his Most Underrated Horror Movie

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Crimson Peak was “doomed” from the start, and Guillermo del Toro knew it. “I was saying, ‘You should promote the romance, and you should promote the mystery. The last thing you want to do is promote it as horror,’” he told Vulture in a recent interview.