Gothic (film)
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| Gothic | |
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 "Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life." |
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| Directed by | Ken Russell |
| Produced by | Al Clark, Robert Devereux |
| Written by | Stephen Volk |
| Starring | Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Language | English |
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Gothic is a 1986 film directed by Ken Russell. It starred Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley and Timothy Spall as Dr John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack composed by Thomas Dolby.
The film is a lurid and highly fictionalized tale based on the famous challenge to write a horror story, made while the Shelleys were staying at Byron's villa on Lake Geneva, that led to Mary Shelley's writing Frankenstein.
[edit] External links
- Gothic at the Internet Movie Database
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