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Gothic

Gothic

Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.

Nov. 30, 1986

01:24:00

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Overview:

The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.

Director: Ken Russell

Writer: Stephen Volk

Cast: Ken Russell, Alec Mango, Gabriel Byrne, ...

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Keywords: Writing, Refracting Telescope, Rowing A Boat, ...

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The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..

Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley (Godwin at the time). 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

Writer: Stephen Volk

Cast: Ken Russell Alec Mango Gabriel Byrne Dexter Fletcher Timothy Spall Julian Sands Natasha Richardson Myriam Cyr Andreas Wisniewski Pascal King Tom Hickey Linda Coggin Kristine Landon-Smith Chris Chappell Mark Pickard Kiran Shah Christine Newby Kim Tillesly

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