Was Edith Cushing in the movie CRIMSON PEAK named after Peter Cushing? I haven't seen it,

[raccoon]

don't know if I really plan to. But when I saw that name, I immediately thought of Peter Cushing.

Same as when GUIDING LIGHT (old soap opera) had a spooky man (Quentin McCord) who had a
housekeeper named Mrs. Renfield. (Remember the lunatic in DRACULA?)

[jakeXT]

1. So it scared Stephen King and the actors

Edith is an aspiring novelist — fittingly, as her name, Edith Cushing, is a nod to both Edith Wharton, the author of House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, and Peter Cushing, the British actor known primarily for his work on horror films with the Hammer studio.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/116989-is-edith-cushing-in-crimson-peak-based-on-a-real-character-mary-shelley-jane-austen

But Del Toro isn't the only one touting the scariness of Crimson Peak. The master of horror himself, Stephen King, saw an early screening of the film and called it "f—king terrifying", comparing it to The Evil Dead. If you think you're harder to scare than the guy who wrote It, Pet Sematary, and Salem's Lot, well, you're wrong. Crimson Peak is so scary, in fact, that it even frightened the actors working on the film. Hiddleston has said that the atmosphere during filming was spooky, and told DailyMotion that this was the first time he'd ever been scared while reading a script. If he was reading the scene depicted in the clip below, then I certainly don't blame him.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/115830-how-scary-is-crimson-peak-lets-just-say-you-wont-want-to-go-alone

I'm more of a Star Wars guy, than a Hammer man