Gothic

1987 PG-13 1h 28m

5.7 / 10 188

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5.7/10

188

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Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Director Ken Russell

Writers

Stephen Volk Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stars

Gabriel Byrne Julian Sands Natasha Richardson

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Wuchak 28 Oct 2019

4/10

***Looks great, sounds good, but a load of dull, pretentious, perverse dreck*** The writer of Frankenstein (Natasha Richardson), her beau (Julian Sands) and half-sister (Myriam Cyr) visit the mad, bad recluse Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) at his lavish estate on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. There they meet Byron’s equally bizarre physician friend (Timothy Spall) and spend the stormy night of June 1...