oh no, the tragic circumstance in which there's an aristocrat but he's charming.
to be clear, this is not a conflict of values between me and the film but the explicit textual problem the protagonist is dealing with rn
i have mixed feelings about certain elements, but this was the better done film compared to Mimic (this is perhaps his second horror film per se).
crimson peak spoilers, if vague
The film deploys the cliché of sexual deviance as the sin of the aristocracy. Indeed, it presents all the horror as deriving from that original sin. There's a brief moment that acknowledges that deviance itself as having an origin, but it's brushed past. I think a Crimson Peak that developed that question further would have been more interesting to me, although I'd still have had mixed feelings.
nonetheless, a good horror film.
this is the only feature film directed by Guillermo del Toro that I have not yet seen. although I should rewatch Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water since I didn't watch them super recently.