Filming Locations: Where was Crimson Peak filmed?

The 2015 movie Crimson Peak was entirely filmed in Canada, in and around Toronto. A blonde maid in white robes carrying a chandelier in the dark, things that creep upon the corridors, a mysterious attic in a haunted mansion...

These are very cliche elements of the subgenre haunted-house movie, but also very promising in the hands of director Guillermo del Toro.

The creator of the masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth comes back with a Victorian Gothic horror film, that in the words of Stephen King is "gorgeous and just f***ing terrifying."

The amazing pictures of the mansion Crimson Peak remind the atmosphere and light that the Italian maestro Dario Argento got in the creepy dance academy of Suspiria. On that occasion back in the seventies, the scenery had a touch of a whimsical Art Deco style.

But according to an interview, Del Toro is aiming higher, to the Mount Everest of the haunted-house terror films: Stanley Kubrick's The shining (a terrific classic movie whose second part called Doctor Sleep was filmed in Atlanta.

But let's go back to the world of Crimson Peak, set in the late nineteenth century.

The film was shot in Canada, but in fiction, we are in what is today Cumbria, (or the historic Cumberland), the most northwesterly county of England, bordering Scotland.

By the way, this article contains fewer spoilers than the trailer of the film!

The house of Crimson Peak is the real star of the film, but where is it located?

Unfortunately, it only existed in a stage of Pinewood Toronto Studios. The interiors of Crimson Peak manor were painstakingly recreated in a set. Once filming ended, they were dismantled for good.
Image courtesy of Legendary Pictures

The neo-Gothic architecture facade of Allerdale Hall also doesn't exist, it's all a product of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).

The Locke and Key house from the Netflix series is also an awesome CGI haunted house, whose interiors were also built in a studio in Toronto.
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The library of the Gothic revival-style house Casa Loma in Toronto was the elegant setting for a ballroom scene.

The production was also filming in some bedrooms and in the stables.
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The scene of the ball is where the beauty Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Only Lovers Left Alive) will meet a seductive stranger that... sorry, we said no spoilers!
Image courtesy of Legendary Pictures

Tom Hiddleston (who also appeared in Only Lovers Left Alive, Loki), is the man who... whoops, have you seen those stained glass windows in the background?
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The windows belong to the Masonic Scottish Rite Club building in Hamilton, Ontario.

Some key scenes of the acclaimed TV show The Handmaid's Tale were also filmed here.
Image by Alexander Synaptic

Several outdoor scenes were also filmed using this Victorian Masonic building as a background.
Image by John Piercy

Also in Hamilton, the production filmed some sequences in the gardens of Dundurn Castle.
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In one of the scenes, the characters are having a Victorian picnic.
Image by Mike Karschti

This is a picture from the set next to Kingston City Hall, where a big (also Victorian) marketplace was recreated.

The prison of the 2021 HBO series Mayor of Kingstown was also filmed in this historical city situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
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The scenes in Cushing's office were filmed in the Victoria College of the University of Toronto.
Image by Alexandra Guerson

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