7. It's More 'Gothic Romance' Than 'Horror'
Trust Del Toro to elegantly play puppeteer with various genres. The man has already managed to make sci-fi feel terrifying and Transformers-styled action screen intelligently. With Crimson Peak, he is once again weaving narrative strands together; pulling the strings tightly so they seem merely as one. Despite obvious horror tropes and a design to reflect such themes, the auteur has actually stated his new film is more of a romance. Apparently... In that same interview with IGN, he embraces the notion and once again recalls on history - this time literary - to aid his reasonings:
"Its not so much things that go bump in the night in the normal haunted house [...] this isnt a horror movie but a Gothic romance. It is sort of a hybrid of many impulses that were boiling in that era sexual tension, romantic tension and the fight between the rational and supernatural. So I would say Uncle Silas would be closer to it. It would also be closer to Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, the Dragonwyck. All these stories that seem to be of another time. But I wanted to give it a couple of scares and a couple of violent moments and sexual moments that are of now, so its not an artefact or a curiosity.