Crimson Peak: 10 Things To Look Forward To

10. A Living House Of Horrors As The Central Character

The real star of this movie is not Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain or even Mia Wasikowska. No, it's Allerdale Hall, the gothic mansion where the new bride gets to kick off her happily-ever-after.

Both trailers revealed a dark, sprawling house that would have had any sensible bride calling her divorce lawyers before the footman even reached for her bags.

Only, there's no footman. There's just this rather suspicious presence morphing in the shadows.

Before filming started, designer Thomas E Sanders built the whole thing in 3D - the old-fashioned, dolls house sort, complete with miniature furniture and all, as opposed to CGI - in order to present as accurate a final product as possible.

And, just to turn up the notch on crazy ever so slightly, sound designer Randy Thom was instructed to make the house 'sound more human' as the film progresses. Whatever hideousness that phrase might imply.

Still unimpressed? Some of the furniture was replicated in different sizes in order to give the impression that it grows and shrinks throughout the film.

The likes of the House on Haunted Hill ain’t got nothing on this del Toro creation, parts of which the director plans to take home with him as soon as filming is over. Creepy much? The man already lives in some sort of monster house in Santa Monica, the US, in real life. Adding a second portal of hell in his backyard is hardly likely to faze him.