[Universal logo is drowned by a screen of red, which then displays the Legendary logo.]

[Indistinct whispering as the camera pans on Allerdale Hall, a remote dilapidated mansion in Cumberland, England.]

[Close-up shots on the mansion's interiors.] Edith Cushing, off-screen: Ghosts are real. That much, I know.

[A caption on screen reads, ""From Visionary Director Guillermo del Toro"".]

[Close-up on Edith, an American young woman, as she looks at a photograph of a family of three with faded faces.] Edith: I've seen them all my life.

[A caption reads, ""'Gorgeous and terrifying... it electrified me', Stephen King.""

[At Allerdale Hall, close-up on a handle rattling and the door being opened seemingly by no one. Edith sits on the bed as she sees this happening.] Ghost, whispering: Beware of Crimson Peak.

[At a sumptuous ball, Thomas Sharpe, an English baronet, asks Edith for a dance.] Thomas: Would you be mine?

[Carter Cushing, Edith's father, and Edith's childhood friend Dr. Alan McMichael, look on as Thomas and Edith meet.]

[At the ball, Thomas introduces Edith to his sister Lucille Sharpe.] Thomas: Edith, this is my sister.

[Edith and Thomas dance together holding a candle, which Edith then blows. Close-up on them both as they kiss.]

[Lucille, dressed in crimson, sits at the piano at the ball. Then outdoors on a sunny day, Thomas and Lucille talk.] Lucille: I don't think she's the right choice. Thomas: You have to trust me.

[A carriage loaded with suitcases arrives at Allerdale Hall, which is covered in snow.]

[Inside the mansion, Thomas and Lucille welcome Edith to her new home.] Lucille: Thomas, your bride is frozen.

[In the kitchen, the three talk.] Thomas: I'll run you a hot bath.

[Edith turns the hot water tap on in the bath, and clanging starts]

[Crimson-colored water bursts from the hot water tap. Edith gasps]

[A female figure dressed in black peaks at the bathroom door as Edith starts to undress. She turns around abruptly after sensing she's being watched.]

[In the kitchen, Lucille talks to Edith. Lucille: There are parts of the house that are unsafe. [She clutches a bundle of keys attached to her waist.]

[Edith looks up from the indoors lift shaft, and the camera pans over a long corridor at Allerdale Hall as the wind howls outside.]

[In a room, Thomas attends to the logs in the fireplace as Edith goes to him.] Edith, whispering: What was that?

[A wide outside shot of Allerdale Hall covered in snow at night.] Thomas: A house as old as this one...

[Shots of the clay mines which sit under Allerdale Hall, with crimson clay oozing out of them.] Thomas: ...becomes in time...

[Close-up on Lucille, as she looks on warily.] Thomas: ...a living thing.

[Thomas and Edith talk in the kitchen.] Thomas: Never go below this level.

[At night holding a lit candlestick, Edith takes the lift inside the house to a level below. She finds a cupboard containing a wooden box.]

[Edith finds photographs inside the box, one of Thomas and another woman.] Thomas, off-screen: It starts holding on to things.

[In the day, outside the mansion, Edith and Thomas talk.] Edith: Has anyone died in this house?

[Close-up on a bloody hand and a cleaver, then of Edith's father Carter in the bathroom of a private sports club, startingly looking at a woman dressed in black putting on a glove.] Edith, off-screen: Specific deaths, violent deaths.

[In an office, Alan and Edith talk.] Alan: In your own best interest, proceed with caution. [At Carter's funeral in the rain, Alan greets Edith and Thomas from a distance, as Thomas greets Alan back whilst embracing a distraught Edith.]

Thomas: Keeping them alive when they shouldn't be. [Close-up on a rocking chair in a dusty room.]

[At night in Allerdale Hall, Edith wanders the corridors holding a lit candlestick.] Edith: If you're here with me, give me a signal.

[Day at the mansion. Edith is startled by a crimson silhouette. At night, Edith looks at a photograph of an infant laying with closed eyes.]

[At the mansion, Lucille talks to Thomas.] Lucille: She knows everything. [At night, Edith runs through the mansion's corridors. Close-up on her as she shuts a door and breathes heavily.]

[Allerdale Hall under heavy snowfall, as the ground turns red due to the clay mines under it.]

Thomas, off-screen: Do we have to do this? [Inside the mansion, Edith looks on as a bloody figure emerges from the floor.]

[A piano key is struck by seemingly no one. Thomas sits next to Lucille on the piano stool.] Thomas: Must we? Lucille: Yes.

[The bloody figure now sits in the bath with a cleaver stuck in its head.]

[Quick shots in succession of Edith looking scared, as she finds a body in a clay mine.] Lucille, off-screen: You have no idea what they'd do.

[A ghost of a woman plays the piano.]

[Behind a door, a scared Edith.] Edith: What do you want?

[A ghost's hands burst through the door and grab Edith.]

[Edith slams open the doors of Allerdale Hall and walks out of it into the snow in her nightdress.]

[Close-up on Edith and Thomas making love in their marital bed.]

[Outside by mining digging machines, now in a crimson-stained nightdress, Edith looks on startingly as she holds a bloody knife. The snow is crimson-colored.]

[Quick succession of shots of Lucille, then of Thomas in the lift with an injured Alan, and finally of Edith pointing a knife.]

[In a room with a lit fireplace, Thomas and Lucille comfort a scared Edith.] Edith: I have to leave.

[Quick succession of shots of a ghost's feet, Edith running, Lucille with a knife, a ghost floating in the air, and Edith falling from a balcony.]

[In the room with the fireplace.] Lucille: You have nowhere else to go. This is your home now.

[Edith whimpers in a bed as a ghost embraces her.]

[A caption reads, ""Crimson Peak"", then ""October 2015"".]

[A caption displays several film credits.]