Gothic (1986)

Regisseur:

Ken Russell

Drehbuchautor:

Stephen Volk (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

10. April 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Werbezeile:

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

Plot:

Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug...

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Female Nudity | Mary Shelley | Biographical | Gothic

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Do What You Want!

Besetzung

Gabriel Byrne	...	Byron
Julian Sands	...	Shelley
Natasha Richardson	...	Mary Shelley
Myriam Cyr	...	Claire Clairmont
Timothy Spall	...	Dr. Polidori
Alec Mango	...	Murray
Andreas Wisniewski	...	Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher	...	Rushton
Pascal King	...	Justine
Tom Hickey	...	Tour Guide
Linda Coggin	...	Turkish Mechanical Woman
Kristine Landon-Smith	...	Mechanical Woman
Chris Chappell	...	Man in Armour (as Chris Chappel)
Mark Pickard	...	Young William
Kiran Shah	...	Fuseli Monster

Alternativ:

Gothic (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

87 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Drehorte:

Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Firma:

Virgin Vision

Dies und das:

The painting that Mary Shelley sees on the wall, and that subsequently comes to life in her dream, is Henri Fuseli's "Nightmare."

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Tour Guide: And there, ladies and gentlemen, on the other side of the lake we have the famous Villa Diodati where Lord Byron, greatest living English poet, resides in exile. Romantic, scholar, duelist, best-selling author of Childe Harold, he was forced to leave his native land after many scandals including incest and adultery with Lady Caroline Lamb. "Mad, bad and dangerous to know" she called him.
[the guide squeezes a lady's hand and points]
Tour Guide: Bedroom - top right.

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Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Un chien andalou (1929)

Do What You Want!

I guess if you were Ken Russell in 1986, riding a crest of weirdity, you can do just about anything you want. I think that Russell was the first really wacko film director I got to know. I hadn't watched anything of his for a long time. This is one of those things that allows this director to take complete license. You have true historical figures who come together in the house of Lord Byron, a really colorful character. The lives of these people come out of boredom. They are misunderstood and a bit spoiled. So, according to Russell, they sit down one night and begin to tell their best horror story. This leads to a series of debauches, hallucinations, whatever. It is filled with images and sex and masochism and anything that the director could throw in there. Now, because you are producing in an accepting time, you can get away with all that. I guess I would watch this again, knowing what the whole of the thing presents, but when you play by no rules other than to do what you want, the results are like throwing paint on a canvass. We get a lot of paint, a lot of color, but no motif. So, while I thought this was a real head trip, I'm not so sure there is much coherence or even meaning to it.