Gothic1987

Name: Gothic
Genre: Gothic, Psychological, Supernatural, Witchcraft & Occult
Released: 1987-02-27
Rating: 5.8

“Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.”

Directed by Ken Russell

5.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.7Rotten Tomatoes 60%TMDB 5.7

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Year

1987

Runtime

88 min

Box Office

Revenue (worldwide)

$916,172

Domestic

$916,172

🏆 2 wins & 2 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

On a stormy night at a lakeside Swiss villa, literary legends Byron, Percy Shelley, and a young Mary Shelley gather for a drug-fuelled evening of ghost stories that spirals far beyond their control. Director Ken Russell plunges viewers into a delirium where the nightmares conjured by brilliant, reckless minds refuse to stay safely inside the imagination. As hallucinations and genuine terror blur into one another, the line between creative inspiration and dangerous madness dissolves entirely. It is a fever dream rooted in one of horror history's most famous real-life nights.

Content: Drug Use, Sexual Content, Disturbing Imagery, Psychological Horror