From my favorite movies..

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Guillermo De Toro comes an awful cropper with this movie. Just about every horror film cliche is doped out in a gorgeous-looking, appallingly-scripted film. and the thing is so silly it becomes unintentionally funny.Tom Hiddlestone is okay, Jessica Chastain gives the sort of performance she might want to leave off her CV. Mia Wasiowsaka's character is so dumb it's hilarious.The script writers obviously realised how bad it was, as they up the gore content to ridiculous levels. The last 30 minutes is pretty much just bodily injury time as everyone gets stabbed, sliced, hacked and bashed. Mia, who has been suffering from slow posioning throughout the movie's second half, becomes a shovel-wielding battler at the end. Tom, of course, reforms all of a sudden when he really does fall in love - ah bless. It's a plot twist you can spot coming a mile off. The women will be happy that he displays his arse Kirk Douglas style.Thanks for all the exposition from phonograph cylinders, handily filling in the gaps for all those audience members who are a bit dim, while at the same time ripping off Dracula. Sorry - in this post-modernist era it's a smart reference, of course for all the psueds. There are plenty of others. I'm just suprised Tom didn't have a monster bubbling in the vat, as they might as well as ripped off Frankenstein as well.I suspect this may become a great guilty pleasure in years to come. Makes me glad Del Torro's Lovecraft movie fell through.

When I saw that another Guillermo del Toro film was being released, I thought, well, with what this director likes me. Although to tell the truth, the first movie of his that I saw was El laberinto del fauno, marvelous, then I saw the rest of his filmography and the disappointment was enormous. With this continues the disappointment. I do not know how he did it in the other but he does not look like anything in any of his other films. But now it's time to talk about The Scarlet Summit.I can not help but be watching the movie and thinking, did you really not know how to do it better?All effects take me out of the movie.The actors, it seems that they knew they were doing popcorn movies and they said, to make an effort.Photography is fine, but it's the only thingThe address, I do not know why he does not know how to put the camera where he should. He does not narrate with her.The story is more than bony view that nothing new. I imagine that it will have had a magnificent production and I think they set up a scenario simulating the mansion, but they would leave it all there. In short, a disappointment, boring and badly carried.

I re-watched Crimson Peak and I liked it again. Yes, the story itself is predictable but the fine actors and especially the superb visuals give enough goodies for the connoisseur of Gothic horror. Director Guillermo del Toro knows his business, and the main actors Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston play their roles well. A good watch for you if you like such movies as The Woman in Black, The Others, A Cure For Wellness, The Awakening, Fall of the House of Usher etc.For the visuals a nine, the acting and directing a 7 and for the story a 5. Makes a neat 7.

Would be better without sound. The decor is stunning but the script is abdominal. The script is similar to all other horror movie clichés. When you are in a life threatening situation always stay in the easily escapable situation and shout: who is there?. I don't believe the average human being would act in that way. To me it seems as if non of the actors posses any sense of rationality or danger. A movie for late nights under influence while reading a book with loud music.