Gothic

Gothic

Gothic
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Actor: Chris Chappel, Dexter Fletcher, Gabriel Byrne, Linda Coggin, Myriam Cyr
Brand: Lions Gate
Primary Contributor: Gabriel Byrne
Primary Contributor: Natasha Richardson
Primary Contributor: Julian Sands
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate

Movie Reviews of Gothic

Movie Review: Twisted Cerebral Fun
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is one I could wtch over and over - it inspired me to read the original Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) (I had never read it until after I saw this movie), I will warn those who do not want to see nudity that there is some in this film but it is not gratuitous and does have a bearing on the story or character development. All the people mentioned in this film are real historical figures and alot of what is said about there lives outside of the main story line are actually true (no one knows if the events shown in the film took place - but I like to think that it did)

Summary of Gothic

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/18/2003
Lurid, kitschy, over the top--what more does one expect from Ken Russell, director of The Devils, Tommy, and Altered States? Gothic purports to tell the story of a night that Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and the future Mary Shelley spent at a country estate and decided to write ghost stories--a night that ultimately resulted in Mary writing the novel Frankenstein. These three and a couple of friends romp around the mansion, freaking out at shadows and the sounds of a storm, getting increasingly hysterical and hallucinatory as the night progresses. Thrown into the mix are a mechanical belly dancer, nudity, walking suits of armor, an orgy, s?ances, grotesque masks, leeches, a pig's head, stigmata, snakes, and God-awful dialogue like "We are the gods now--we have dared to call ourselves creators!" Gabriel Byrne (Byron), Julian Sands (Shelley), and Natasha Richardson (Mary) are all terrible; it's a miracle any of their careers survived. But good or bad isn't really the point with Ken Russell, who aspires to a kind of visual delirium. Gothic isn't the masterpiece of excess that The Lair of the White Worm is, but towards the last half-hour it does achieve a creepy state of disorientation entirely suited to its subject matter. Russell isn't afraid to be trashy in the pursuit of unfettered cinematic symbolism. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. --Bret Fetzer

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