Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance supernatural horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver. The story, set in Victorian-Era England, follows an aspiring author who is settled in a remote Gothic mansion in Cumberland, England—accompanied by her new husband and his sister—where she seeks to decipher the mystery behind the ghostly visions that haunt her new home. In 2006, a spec script written by Del Toro and Robbins was sold to Universal Pictures, with Del Toro set to direct.