Gothic

About 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.

Gothic is a 1987 horror film directed by Ken Russell. The film is filed under literature, opium, lord byron, and gay theme.

Gabriel Byrne stars as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, and Myriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont. It runs 88 minutes and was released in February 1987.

The screenplay is by Stephen Volk. It streams on Artiflix, BFI Player Amazon Channel, and Eternal Family in the United States.

The Basketball Diaries, Mary Shelley, and Go make useful companions to Gothic, all filed under drugs. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 201 votes and it carries a R rating.