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.
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🔍 Search on JustWatch →Fear lives in the details here — in the frame, in the silence, in the pauses between lines. The director knows how to keep the viewer in a state of readiness, muscles tensing on their own.
Worth watching for the atmosphere and the use of space. The ending may disappoint — genre is genre. But the journey there is well-crafted.
For fans of atmospheric horror where dread matters more than fright.
Director: Ken Russell
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Viewing atmosphere: At night when it's dark outside. Better with someone — not because it's scary, but because there's something to discuss after.
Gabriel Byrne
Lord Byron
Julian Sands
Percy 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
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