10 Terrifying Horror Films That Will Haunt Your 2015

2. Crimson Peak

Release date: October 16 How do you follow a film like Pacific Rim? By doing something completely different, apparently. Guillermo del Toro always has a lot of irons in the fire, and one of his more recent (ultimately failed) projects was a big-budget adaptation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror novella At the Mountains of Madness. Despite James Cameron being attached as producer €“ presumably bringing along some of his groundbreaking Avatar motion capture technology with him €“ the R-rating and ballooning budget scared studios away. Off the back of the successful giant-robots-fighting-giant-monsters mayhem, though, del Toro is back in the horror game. Fun as Pacific Rim is, the director's real strength is in the eerie, terrifying horror of Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone. Crimson Peak looks set to be a return to form, a gothic tale set in a crumbling 19th century Cumbrian castle, with Mia Wasikowska as the author who starts to suspect new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) is not who he appears...