Lady Lucille Sharpe

"But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all."

- Lucille Sharp.

Lucille Sharpe is the main antagonist of the 2015 film Crimson Peak. She owns the mansion, Allerdale Hall, along with her brother, Thomas Sharpe.

Background
Lucille and her brother Thomas grew up together and developed a close bond during their childhood. They were abused by their mother after she locked them in the attic and became emotionally weak due to the fact that her husband left her for another woman. Eventually their relationship grew into an incestuous love affair which led to Lucille killing their mother after discovering their relationship, and together they began plotting by killing Thomas's brides for inheritance and fortune.

Story
Lucille is responsible for the death of Carter Cushing, a industrialist whose daughter Edith, a writer, began to see the ghosts after death of her mother and grieving of her father's mysterious death by seeking solace with Thomas who falls in love with her by asking her to marry him. But her father became suspicious about Thomas' background and sent a private eye to investigate Thomas' alibi. Lucille begins to grow jealous of Thomas's new found happiness with his newly married wife Edith. As a result she begun to treat her sister in law coldly. One night Edith is visited by her mother's ghost and warned her about Crimson Peak, becoming traumatized and weaker in the process. She tells her husband Thomas that she wishes to leave the house but Lucille pressured her to stay. It was not long until Edith finds the decaying corpses of Thomas's brides and she realized that she will be Lucille and Thomas' next victim. However, Edith's childhood friend, Dr. Alan McMichael arrived and attempted to rescue her, only to be stabbed by Lucille. Eventually, Thomas betrayed his sister by burning the wedding vows. After learning that Thomas had fallen in love with Edith, she had a breakdown and killed him. Distraught, she attempted to kill Edith next. However, she was disarmed by the appearance of Thomas's ghost, giving Edith the chance to kill her and break her head and neck with a shovel. But her black and decayed ghost remained in Crimson Peak, forever alone just as she lived in life.