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“Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.”
Gothic (1987)
February 27, 19871h 28mEN
5.7
186 votes
Overview
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 RussellWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Stream
Free
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$916K
Production Companies
Virgin Vision
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Wuchak
4.0***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 16, 1816, in hallucinatory revelry, including a challenge to write a spooky story, which gave birth to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre,” the first published moder…
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