You mean Batman, don't you?

In this case, they're all highly symbolic both in color and design, as well as being gorgeous in and of themselves. Think heraldry, and the difference between a mediaeval painting of a mythological scene, and clip-art.

Have you seen the closeups of the costumes and props that were at Comic-Con 2014? The embroidery is all authentic bullion and silk! It looks just like old portraits and survivals in museums!

How about an elaborate political allegory for the fall of the British Empire and the passing of its disfunctions off on the New World, specifically North American part of it? Built on blood, beautiful and old but rotten and full of holes (and that oldness itself half fake, Gothic Revival on top of Saxon ruins on top…

Have you HEARD peacocks? There's a reason they drive you insane even when you can't see them!

HIDDLESTON. He's kind of a big deal on this internet thing, you know.

He's in all the trailers AND the posters, where his symbolic aura is carved angel wings, versus Wasikowska's Monarch butterfly wings, Chastain's moth, and Hiddleston's skull.

The Dying Teenager YA subgenre has remained pretty constant since the Eighties at least.

She was in all the posters, in the stills from set visits, and did a bunch of interviews a few months ago, is in all the ads and her presence has been discussed on every blog article about this movie that I've seen. I don't know how you missed that, unless you have adblock on and skipped all the Crimson Peak articles…

Jane Austen LOVED the same gothic novels that inspired del Toro in Devil's Backbone, so I guess you don't like her that much. (She may have taken the piss out of their ridiculousness in Northanger Abbey and her private teenage parody fics, but they're the sort of loving parodies that only a die-hard fan of Walpole…

Good grief, you didn't find all the moments of eerie silence and symbolism to be spooky? All the classic Early-Hitchcockian suspense to be spooky? What DO you find spooky, gorefests like Eli Roth?

I don't think you watched the film at all. Doctor Casares is a failure, a coward on many levels, but not the "real villain" in any way, being weak but kind — Carmen the Headmistress is more wicked, being vain and lustful and inconsiderate and jealous, but even she has her noble and heroic virtues, courage and loyalty…

It's an allegorical Mystery Play that's also an homage to the era of Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda and to Seventies anime like Space Battleship Yamato, Harlock and Voltron, of course it's over the top!

I take it you didn't spot any of the classical mythology or Arthurian allusions in Hellboy or the classical myth and Aztec history references in Devil's Backbone or how all of them, including Pan's Labyrinth, but mainly Pan's Labyrinth, are present in Pacific Rim? And if you didn't find the mystery and the suspense…

Devil's Backbone is a recasting of the myths of Theseus and of Apollo and Heracles warring for the Oracle throne of Delphi, and Carmen in Backbone is a mirrorverse version of Carmen in Labyrinth (look at the cameos they both wear, symbolizing the White & Red Queens that they both are) even though one is played by…

It's the absolutely most Ray Bradbury film that I've ever seen. And it's full of references to classical mythology, particularly Lucian's skewed take on it, as well as being an allegory of empire, drawing a line from the Conquistadors to NAFTA…

Cronos is the best Ray Bradbury film out there, even though it isn't technically based on a Bradbury story. And it sets up all the echoing plot lines that run right through every single one of his stories, connecting characters and themes and heraldic imagery as mythological metaphor, starting with Perlman as Federico…

You got the order wrong — they took it away from him and cut the character beats to put in jump scares shot by some hack-for-hire, so he disowned it.

Mimic was taken away from him and Weinstein had someone else do a bunch of reshoots to stick more jump scares in to replace the character beats that were taken out. He finally got control of it and released a fixed version that puts back in what was cut and cuts the stupid jump scares that he's happy with, even though…

Although Wrath of Khan kind of is!