This isn't nominated for anything, which is a pity because it's gorgeous. Edith (Mia Wasikowska) is a young woman dreaming of being a novelist. She has no interest in being a proper nineteenth century woman, consumed with being a wife and mother. She is fully prepared to live as a spinster until she meets the penniless but titled Brit, Lord Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). Despite herself, she is drawn to his air of mysterious tragedy and accepts his proposal. They return to his ancestral home, a moldering heap known as Crimson Peak for its viscous red clay. Edith soon suspects there is more going on than she was previously aware, for the ghosts of Crimson Peak are rising.
This is a Guillermo Del Toro film and you can see it in every frame. Jessica Chastain is so much better here than she was in Mama and I love Jim Beaver in everything he does. This was an impulse purchase when I was shopping but it far and away exceeded my expectations.
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