Gothic

Gothic

1987 · 88 min · EN · R · 5.7 (202 votes)
Dir. Ken Russell · Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall, Alec Mango · Music Thomas Dolby

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

Horror

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.

VIBE

A decadent, drug-fueled gathering where artistic ambition curdles into existential dread. Shadows lengthen, and the line between imagination and terror blurs in a lavish, suffocating atmosphere.

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