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Overview

User Rating:
5.4/10   2,739 votes
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Director:
Ken Russell
Writer:
Stephen Volk (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 April 1987 (USA) more
Tagline:
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... more | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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One of the most interesting horror films ever made! more (45 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
87 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Company:
Virgin Vision more

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Trivia:
The painting that Mary Shelley sees on the wall, and that subsequently comes to life in her dream, is Johann Heinrich Fuessli's "Nightmare." more
Quotes:
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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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References Un chien andalou (1929) more

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16 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
One of the most interesting horror films ever made!, 10 October 2004
Author: cocteau_fiend (cocteau_fiend@hotmail.com) from Blue Mountains, Australia

I've only seen two of Ken Russell's films (Gothic and Lair of the White Worm), but if they are anything to go by, he is one of the best horror directors of all time. It is so nice to see someone going against the mould and not making predictable slasher films or Hollywood 'Sixth-Sense' style horror-thrillers.

It is about the weird night that Mary Shelly and her poet brother spent with Lord Byron, which supposedly inspired her to write Frankenstein.

It is filled with hallucionations and erotic weirdness which bridges it much closer to the work of David Lynch or Cronenberg than to the traditional horror film.

I absolutely loved this film and can't recommend it enough. Even if you hate it, you can't deny that it's an experience! 5/5

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