Wuchak
Looks great, sounds good, but a load of dull, pretentious, perverse dreck
The writer of Frankenstein (Natasha Richardson), her beau (Julian Sands) and half-sister (Myriam Cyr) visit the mad, bad recluse Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) at his lavish estate on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. There they meet Byrons equally bizarre physician friend (Timothy Spall) and spend the stormy night of June 16, 1816, in hallucinatory revelry, including a challenge to write a spooky story, which gave birth to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and John William Polidoris The Vampyre, the first published modern vampire story.
The premise of Gothic (1986) is great, the first act is interesting and the short epilogue is effective. Unfortunately, the hour in be...