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27/02/1987 Horror 1h 28m
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Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.

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.

  1. Ken Russell

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gabriel Byrne

    Lord Byron

  2. Julian Sands

    Percy Shelley

  3. Natasha Richardson

    Mary Shelley

  4. Myriam Cyr

    Claire Clairmont

  5. Timothy Spall

    Dr. Polidori

  6. Alec Mango

    Murray

  7. Andreas Wisniewski

    Fletcher

  8. Dexter Fletcher

    Rushton

  9. Pascal King

    Justine

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2019-10-28
***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 p...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$916,172.00

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