B00026ZEAI

082554361226

1986

1987-04-10

87

1h 27min

Awards, 2 wins & 2 nominations

Ken Russell

Stephen Volk, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson

Al Clark, Penny Corke, Robert Devereux, Robert Fox

Thomas Dolby

Mike Southon

Michael Bradsell

Mary Selway

Christopher Hobbs

Michael Buchanan

Kay Gallwey, Victoria Russell

Yvonne Coppard, Pat Hay, Meinir Jones-Lewis, Tracy Smith

Laura Julian, Paul Sparrow

Peter Freeman, Callum McDougall, Iain Patrick

Mick Bates, Alan Brown, Bob Cann, Alan Chesters, Paul Dufficey, Trisha Edwards, Peter Ettedgui, Peter Grant, Eddie McMahon, Kieron Mcnamara, Micky Mills, Rodney Pincott, John Roberts, Tom Roberts, Anne Tilby, Stewart Hadley

Campbell Askew, John Chandler, Mike Dowson, Gerard McCann, Shaun Mills, Andy Nelson, Peter Pennell, Graham Sutton, Bruce White, Lionel Strutt

Simon Hewitt, Graham High, Jeremy Hunt, Ian Morse, Stephen Onions, Ian Whittaker, Mathew Horton

Helen Caldwell, Tony Smart, Roy Street

Mike Barker, Alf Bloor, Michael Brown, Jeremy Connolly, Clive Coote, Graham Day, Mike Fox, Stewart Hadley, Don McLellan, Tommy Moran, Steve Parker, Kelvin Richard, Malcolm Sheehan, Stevie Smith

Kay Gallwey, Michael Jeffery

Karen Cross, Mark Latimer

Nick Daubeny, Jane Studd

Clif Brigden, John Fiddy, Gaynor Sadler, Tony Sadler, Greg Fulginiti

Lissa Ruben

Frank Barretta, Hamish Bell, Peter Berglund, Joe Drinkeld, Gerry Floyd, Peter Godfrey, Frank Hogan, Tony Leport, Joe Murphy, Ron Narduzzo, Tony Walker

Cate Arbeid, Anthony Bryans, Roger Farr, Peter Govey, Tom Hugh-Jones, Rosamunde Maxwell, Zakiya Powell, Phillip Small, Sarah Stinchcombe, Will Tyler, Ronaldo Vasconcellos, Vicki Wallis

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Virgin Vision

UK

English

R

5.7

8143

Gothic is a 1986 British psychological horror film directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, Myriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley s stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr. John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack by Thomas Dolby, and marks Richardson s and Cyr s film debut.

The film is a fictionalized retelling of the Shelleys visit to Lord Byron in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, shot in Gaddesden Place. It concerns their competition to write a horror story, which ultimately led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein and John Polidori writing The Vampyre. The same event has also been portrayed in the films Mary Shelley (with Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley), Haunted Summer (1988) (with Alice Krige as Mary Shelley) among others, and alluded to in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (with Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley and the Bride of the Monster).

The film s poster motif is based on Henry Fuseli s 1781 painting The Nightmare, which is also referenced in the film.

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