Guillermo is renowned for playing with character dynamics, manipulating the ways in which his audience consume them and brilliantly pulling the rug out from under then. You'd presume a film set inside one of the most sinister-looking buildings that is populated by ghoulish spirits is bad-guy enough, but more fool you. It has been reported that much of the antagonistic drama develops through Jessica Chastain's Lady Lucille Sharpe, and the lengths in which she'll go to protect her family and home. A fairytale author at heart, Del Toro has a squishy part in his heart that will forever be indebted to the monster under the bed or the skeleton in the closet. He romanticises the macabre in a manner rarely seen across this art form. Whilst our initial scares may come from said ghosts and ghouls, the real nasties will always be those living. What could be scarier for a young woman falling hopelessly for a man and later realise he is not who she married? Unearthed dark secrets about the Sharpes will likely be as gloomy as the cryptic rooms inside the manor.
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