Directed by Guillermo del Toro   Written by Guillermo del Toro   Matthew Robbins   Cast Mia Wasikowska ... Edith Cushing Jessica Chastain ... Lucille Sharpe Tom Hiddleston ... Thomas Sharpe Charlie Hunnam ... Dr. Alan McMichael Jim Beaver ... Carter Cushing Burn Gorman ... Holly Leslie Hope ... Mrs. McMichael Doug Jones ... Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe Jonathan Hyde ... Ogilvie Bruce Gray ... Ferguson Emily Coutts ... Eunice Alec Stockwell ... Finlay Brigitte Robinson ... Secretary Jane Gillian Ferrier ... Society Girl Tamara Hope ... Society Girl Kimberly-Sue Murray ... Society Girl Sofia Wells ... Young Edith Joanna Douglas ... Maid Annie Bill Lake ... Coroner Jim Watson ... Shipping Agent Javier Botet ... Enola / Margaret / Pamela Peter Spence ... Manager Danny Waugh ... Club Attendant Sean Hewitt ... Reverend William Healy ... Young Alan Matia Jackett ... Young Eunice Karen Glave ... Maid Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah ... Maid John Carter Craig ... Patient Martin Julien ... Postal Clerk Brian Kaulback ... Vendor Richard Kerr ... Vendor Shane McPherson ... Vendor Tim Blake ... Reverend Thomas Dorey ... Architect Erik Bauersfeld ... Additional Voices (voice) Joan Washington ... Additional Voices (voice) Beatrice Basso ... Additional Voices (voice) Mitzi McCall ... Additional Voices (voice) Susanne Blakeslee ... Additional Voices (voice) Drew Davis ... Additional Voices (voice) T.J. McGibbon ... Additional Voices (voice) (as TJ McGibbon) Anneliese Goldman ... Additional Voices (voice) Jenna Weir ... Additional Voices (voice) Uncredited Cast Cyndy Day ... Picnic attendee Stephen K. Donnelly ... Butcher Jared MacIntyre ... Architect Malcolm McKenzie ... Pedestrian Myrna Moretti ... Party Guest Justin Moses ... Ballroom Patron Daryn Pancer ... Ghost Amanda Smith ... Beatrice Corgand Svendsen ... Paperboy #1 Michael Thorner ... Party Guest Laura Waddell ... Pamela Upton Gregory Willmot ... Party Guest Produced by Guillermo del Toro   Callum Greene   Jon Jashni   Jillian Share   Thomas Tull   Original Music by Fernando Velázquez   Special Effects by Mitch C. Duran ... special effects technician Daniel Gibson ... special effects buyer Gary Kleinsteuber ... special effects first assistant Kaz Kobielski ... special effects shop key Rocco Larizza ... special effects coordinator Salvatore Larizza ... special effects head labourer Umberto Larizza ... special effects on-set technician Mark Lawton ... special effects rigging key Jim McFall ... special effects rigging key Laird McMurray ... special effects coordinator Innanen Mike ... special effects on-set key Lisa Pacitto ... special effects administrator Amber Skowronski ... special effects technician Matthew Tulk ... special effects on-set technician / special effects technician Barry Watkins ... special effects shop supervisor Xavier Bastida ... special effects makeup: DDTSFX Roland Blancaflor ... special effects technician Ray Comiso ... special effects first assistant rigging supervisor Paul Hewitt ... special effects crew David Martí ... special effects makeup Jim Reischl ... special effects technician Montse Ribé ... special effects makeup Skyler Wilson ... special effects technician Visual Effects by Keith Acheson ... cg effects artist Alp Altiner ... matte painter Alfredo Octavio Arango ... matchmover Mandy Au ... compositor Alex Avdyushin ... cg modeller Peter Bas ... compositor Justin Bates ... roto/paint artist Barb Benoit ... compositor Dennis Berardi ... production visual effects supervisor Asha Bhaskaran ... cg effects artist Cliff Bielawski ... visual effects coordinator Zena Bielewicz ... compositor Kristy Blackwell ... compositor Loganathan Boopathy ... visual effects artist Mathew Borrett ... matte painter Mike Borrett ... digital effects producer Leo Bovell ... visual effects artist J. Alan Bradshaw ... lighting lead: Mr.X Natalie Broomhall ... visual effects coordinator Ayo Burgess ... lighting artist Craig Calvert ... lighting artist Daniela Campos Little ... matchmover Atilla Ceylan ... character and creature artist Andy Chan ... compositing sequence lead Joseph Cheng Chen ... matchmover / tracking/layout artist Ovidiu Cinazan ... compositor Sarah Coffyn ... compositor Nick Colangelo ... visual effects coordinator Doug Cook ... compositor Lyle Cooley ... animator Tommaso Corona ... compositing sequence lead Gary Couto ... compositing sequence lead Eric Cowan ... modeler Chris Crozier ... visual effects artist Tony Cybulski ... digital compositor Graham Day ... compositor Juan de Santiago ... cg modeller Chris De Souza ... animator Rob Del Ciancio ... senior compositor Jeremy Dineen ... cg effects artist Becca Donohoe ... visual effects coordinator Gene Dreitser ... cg effects artist Mai-Ling Dydo ... matte painter Peter Dydo ... animator Jason Edwardh ... animator Rory Falloon ... technical support Vladimir Filatov ... technical support Naomi Foakes ... visual effects: studio resources manager Daniel Fox ... cg modeller Shaun Galinak ... cg effects artist Wei Gao ... rotoscoping Jason Gougeon ... lead cg modeller Utkarsh Gupta ... paint artist Tanya Haddad ... vfx assistant editor: Mr. X Inc. Mark O. Hammond ... digital compositor Trey Harrell ... lighting artist Leann Harvey ... visual effects plate supervisor Oliver Hearsey ... lead matchmover Danni Henderson ... visual effects coordinator Martin Hesselink ... animator Darren Hinchy ... visual effects dailies editor Eddee Huang ... compositing sequence lead Jo Hughes ... visual effects producer Alvin Huynh ... character rigger Jenn Inkol ... visual effects coordinator Nitin Jain ... compositor Sumit Singh Jaswal ... lead compositor Cathy Jefferies ... senior visual effects producer: Topix Chris Johnson ... visual effects artist Jeremy Johnson ... compositing sequence lead Anna Joukova ... digital compositor: Mr.X Inc. Faith Khan ... character rigging Min Kim ... rotoscoping Ben King ... lighting artist Alina Klinaeva ... visual effects coordinator Jesse Kobayashi ... visual effects executive Dmitriy Kolesnik ... cg effects artist Daniel Krzywania ... lead animator Lorne Kwechansky ... lighting artist Eric Lacroix ... cg effects artist Greg Lamar ... compositor Mark Lavania ... lighting artist Adam Lee ... cg modeller Jina Lee ... matte painter Marco Lee ... compositor Sunkwan Lee ... cg modeller Emma Liu ... rotoscoping Lukas Lundberg ... cg effects artist Ken MacKenzie ... animator Chris MacLean ... cg supervisor: Mr. X Rajendra Maharana ... compositor Vimal Reddy Mallireddy ... cg effects artist Robin Mangat ... matchmover Jim Maxwell ... matte painter Ruben Mayor ... cg effects artist Jonathan J. McCallum ... character rigging lead Ryan Mcdonald ... technical support Karen McGregor ... visual effects coordinator Sarah McMurdo ... supervising vfx producer Hao Meng ... rotoscoping Sean Mills ... cg modeller Abdul Mohamud ... visual effects artist Michael Morley ... compositor Thomas Grant Morrison ... lighting artist Benjamin Mossman ... rotoscoping Tom Nagy ... animator Makarand Nazirkar ... character rigging Yuhay-Ray Ng ... cg modeller Andrew Nguyen ... matte painter Chris Nguyen ... technical support Caesar Niculescu ... cg effects artist Chris Nokes ... visual effects producer: Rocket Science VFX Pearce Perkins ... visual effects artist Elena Perreira ... lighting artist Melvin Mathew Pillai ... paint & prep artist: anibrain Jim Price ... senior technical supervisor Matt Ralph ... matchmover Dominic Remane ... digital effects supervisor Immalyn Reyes ... cg effects artist Scott Riopelle ... compositing supervisor Andy Robinson ... compositor David Roby ... cg modeller Suresh Rohit ... assistant production manager Rahul Roy ... compositor Brandon Schaafsma ... visual effects editor Milan Schere ... matte painter Seema Schere ... matte painter Matt Schofield ... matte painter Alexandre Scott ... lighting artist Nathan Segre ... matchmover Ronak Shah ... visual effects artist Shervin Shahidi ... character rigging Kyle Sim ... compositor Ashish Raju Somkuwar ... compositor Somboun Souannhaphanh ... animator Ian Spriggs ... cg modeller Matthew S. Steeves ... visual effects dailies editor Xizo Su ... rotoscoping Michael C. Tang ... rotoscoping Pawan Tetu ... digital compositor Raymond Tjernstrom ... cg effects artist Kumar Umesh ... digital compositor Tracey Vaz ... compositor Kevin Vriesinga ... animation / visual effects rigging Stephen Wagner ... cg effects artist Charles Wardlaw ... character rigging Aaron Weintraub ... pipeline supervisor Ran Long Wen ... cg effects artist Avinash Williams ... rotoscoping Paul Wishart ... cg modeller Karol Wlodarczyk ... cg modeller Olivia Yapp ... compositor Kyle Yoneda ... cg effects supervisor / effects supervisor Olumide Adeyemo ... matchmove/layout artist: Mr. X Inc. Ferran Banchs ... additional vfx editor: Mr. X Inc. Jarom Brand ... rigging technical director Alex Branton ... digital compositor Cristian Camaroschi ... visual effects artist Rup Roy Choudhury ... digital effects Harshal Deshpande ... team lead matchmove Sara Hilmarsdóttir ... compositing technical director Anuva Natarajan Iyer ... digital compositor Shuming Jiang ... digital compositor Natalya Kuzmina ... digital environment artist Kimberly Nelson LoCascio ... visual effects executive: legendary pictures Matt Mcewan ... digital compositor Vashishta Mohit ... digital compositor Alex Morin ... visual effects editorial assistant: Mr. X Inc Prakash Pathak ... visual effects production assistant Vishvendra Rai ... visual effects trainee intern Rob Tasker ... digital compositor Joseph Towe ... digital artist Perunika Yorgova ... digital compositor Ashkan Yousefi ... visual effects Celine Zoleta ... visual effects coordinator Stunts Leigh Bianco ... stunts Marco Bianco ... stunts Tom Farr ... stunts Brian Frank ... stunts Joel Harris ... stunts Zandara Kennedy ... stunts Danny Lima ... stunts Duncan McLeod ... stunts Branko Racki ... stunt coordinator Joseph Racki ... stunts Robert Racki ... stunts Aj Risi ... stunts Steve 'Shack' Shackleton ... stunts Jennifer Mylrea ... stunts Thanks Alfonso Cuarón ... special thanks Diane Cuthbert ... special thanks Daniel del Toro ... special thanks Marisa Del Toro ... special thanks Gabriel Gutiérrez ... special thanks Alejandro G. Iñárritu ... special thanks Lorenza Newton ... special thanks Chris Parker ... special thanks Elise Siegel ... special thanks

Additional Info Premiere: September 25, 2015 Theatrical Release: October 16, 2015 DVD Release: February 09, 2016 Blu-ray Release: February 09, 2016 Countries: Distributor: Universal Studios Websites: Production Companies Double Dare You (DDY) Legendary Entertainment Distributors Universal Pictures   (2015) (United States) (theatrical) HBO Max   (2020) (United States) (VOD) (video) KVH Media Group   (2016) (World-wide) (ships) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)   (2016) (United States) (Blu-ray) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)   (2016) (United States) (DVD) Filming Locations Canada Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   (Casa Loma) Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Kendall, Clarington, ON, Canada   (House exterior shots) Kingston, Ontario, Canada   (Market Square Downtown outside city hall) Ontario, Canada Pinewood Toronto Studios, Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Scottish Rite, 4 Queen Street South, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada   (on location) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.5 / 10 Our Rating -- / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users -- / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #1,181 / 21,271 Site Ranking #1,177 Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) #1,178 The Covenant (2023) #1,179 Mulan (2020) #1,180 The Wedding Singer (1998) #1,181 Crimson Peak (2015) #1,182 Sleeping Beauty (1959) #1,183 Old (2021) #1,184 Friday The 13th (1980) #1,185 Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 1 (1997)