Looks great, sounds good, but a load of dull, pretentious, perverse dreck
Gothic
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.
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Gothic
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Status
Released
Release Date
Nov 30, 1986
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Horror
User Score
57%
Original Title
Gothic
Production Companies
Virgin Vision
Director
Ken Russell
Description
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.