TV Guide: Online Video Guide Gothic

Gothic

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:45:34 -0500

This story goes into the circumstance of the night that Mary Shelley wrote the story of Dr Frankenstein at Lord Byron's Swiss estate. The guests use hallucinogens and play bizarre games resulting in tales of horror.

Gothic

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:04:09 -0500

The story is embellished from events which allegedly took place at the Swiss villa of Lord Byron on the night of June 16, 1816. Byron's guests include poet Percy Shelley and his future wife Mary; Mary's half-sister Claire and Byron's leech-happy personal physician Dr. John Polidori. Byron promises them a night of horror like only a mad poet can deliver - after partaking of laudanum and other hallucinogens, the guests tell ghost stories while exploring the dark corridors of his home. From here, Russell dives headlong into madness, discarding plot structure in favor of fever-dream set pieces in which the guests confront living manifestations of their own fears and insecurities - creative, mortal and sexual, among others.

Gothic

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:03:56 -0500

Gothic

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:05:43 -0500

The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears.