A Review Too Far - Crimson Peak

This week our Cinema Geeks review A Clockwork Orange, Twixt, and Crimson Peak~

First up is Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowell plays a sociopathic youth rampaging through suburban London in a dystopian future for Sex and Ultraviolence plague the city. Caught after murdering a woman, McDowell's Alex is sent to prison where he is enrolled in an experimental mind control program design to make him reject his natural impulses through negative conditioning. A film that doesn't shy away from its basic premises, A Clockwork Orange is classic Kubrick that is as brave as it is groundbreaking.

After that is Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt in which Val Kilmer plays a hack horror writer who stumbles upon a small town murder mystery that could involve vampirism and serial killings. Shot on a low budget and burdened by bad writing and plot holes, Twixt is an interesting experiment, but only that.

Finally, out in theaters now, is Crimson Peak, a Gothic Horror Romance where Mia Wasikowska plays an heiress author who is swept of her feet by a beggared baronet (Tom Hiddleston) and taken to his decaying manor on the moors of rural England where ghosts haunt the grounds, slowly driving her mad. A very faithful recreation of the literary genre its homaging, Crimson Peak is beautiful in set and art design, but frays a bit around the edges of story and character arcs.