Rowing with the Wind1988

Name: Rowing with the Wind
Genre: Gothic, Psychological, Supernatural, Classic Monsters
Released: 1988-09-19
Rating: 6

Directed by Gonzalo Suárez

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.8TMDB 5.8

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Year

1988

Runtime

95 min

Box Office

🏆 10 wins & 8 nominations

The premise

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.

Horror Vault's take

The summer of 1816 brings Percy Shelley, Mary, and Lord Byron together on the shores of Lake Geneva, where a fateful storytelling challenge sparks the birth of Frankenstein. As Mary's monstrous creation takes shape on the page, she begins to wonder whether the dark force she has unleashed in her imagination has somehow crossed into the real world. Over the following years, a string of devastating losses shadows the Shelley circle, feeding Mary's dread that her fictional monster walks among them. This lush period piece blurs the boundary between literary history and supernatural horror, exploring what it costs a visionary mind to dream something terrible into being.

Content: Themes Of Grief And Loss, Infant And Child Mortality, Mature Sexual Content, Depictions Of Depression And Psychological Distress