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Writer:
Stephen Volk (screenplay)
Release Date:
10 April 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.
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Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug...
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2 wins
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1 nomination
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Gabriel Byrne: The Hollywood Interview
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Leeches and Intellectuals
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gabriel Byrne | ... | Byron |
 | Julian Sands | ... | Shelley |
 | Natasha Richardson | ... | Mary Shelley |
 | Myriam Cyr | ... | Claire Clairmont |
 | Timothy Spall | ... | Dr. Polidori |
| Alec Mango | ... | Murray |
| Andreas Wisniewski | ... | Fletcher |
 | Dexter Fletcher | ... | Rushton |
| Pascal King | ... | Justine |
| Tom Hickey | ... | Tour Guide |
| Linda Coggin | ... | Turkish Mechanical Woman |
| Kristine Landon-Smith | ... | Mechanical Woman |
| Chris Chappell | ... | Man in Armour (as Chris Chappel) |
| Mark Pickard | ... | Young William |
 | Kiran Shah | ... | Fuseli Monster |
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87 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Director Cameo: [Ken Russell] [with family]on the tour boat at the end of the film.
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Tour Guide: And there, ladies and gentlemen, on the other side of the lake we have the famous Villa Diodati where Lord Byron, greatest living English poet, resides in exile. Romantic, scholar, duelist, best-selling author of Childe Harold, he was forced to leave his native land after many scandals including incest and adultery with Lady Caroline Lamb. "Mad, bad and dangerous to know" she called him.
[the guide squeezes a lady's hand and points]
Tour Guide: Bedroom - top right.
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Tour Guide: And there, ladies and gentlemen, on the other side of the lake we have the famous Villa Diodati where Lord Byron, greatest living English poet, resides in exile. Romantic, scholar, duelist, best-selling author of Childe Harold, he was forced to leave his native land after many scandals including incest and adultery with Lady Caroline Lamb. "Mad, bad and dangerous to know" she called him.
[the guide squeezes a lady's hand and points]
Tour Guide: Bedroom - top right.
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References Un chien andalou (1929)
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GOTHIC is a seductive and fascinating study of the four principle players in the turn-of-the-century origin of at least one, if not two, of the principle monster icons of popular culture: the
vampire and the Frankenstein Monster. But despite the incredible (and true) historical significance of the writing challenge, to produce a ghost story apiece worthy of these literary personages, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Polidori, the film is brilliant in its fictional depiction of people whose minds are brilliant enough, creatively, that their ideas become tangible forces, released, and uncontrollable.
The chaotic structure of GOTHIC is excellent, while the interplay between the actors is fabulous. GOTHIC's intellectual hysteria creates an atmosphere where ghosts and demons gain power and autonomous life from their creators, showing the formulation in Mary Shelley's mind of the Frankenstein story, and the tragic consequence of both the story and the real lives of Percy Shelley, Byron and Polidori. Well worth experiencing.