Last year s Pacific Rim may have been a proficiently noisy, technically crunchy blockbuster, but it wasn t the creative comeback that fans of Guillermo del Toro s darker side were hoping for. Could this Victorian Gothic haunted house thriller be a more characteristically perverse return for the Mexican fantasy merchant? Things could go either way, but with sumptuous production values and a cast including Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston, there s more than enough to lure us in.