Ken Russell's GOTHIC (1987)

“On the shores of Lake Geneva in the sunless summer of 1816, Lord Byron and his doctor John Polidori are visited by Percy and Mary Shelley, with Claire Claremont (Byron’s lover and Mary Shelley’s stepsister) tagging along. Aided by laudanum and other drugs provided by Polidori, they devise an evening of telling impromptu ghoulish tales (most famously leading to FRANKENSTEIN). However, when confronted by the horrors of their own creations, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell apparitions from reality.”

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GOTHIC (1987)
Directed by Ken Russell
Screenplay by Stephen Volk
With GABRIEL BYRNE, NATASHA RICHARDSON, JULIAN SANDS, TIMOTHY SPALL and DEXTER FLETCHER
1 hour 28 mins.
Available to stream and rent in a variety of places, check www.justwatch.com/us/movie/gothic for details.

Of interest:

Drunk History, an excerpt of “How ‘Frankenstein’ Was Created“: youtu.be/mNTW6_Voelg?si=hC8xnf9kxV0apd2F
(5 mins.)

“Haunted Summer of 1816,” Encyclopædia Britannica: www.britannica.com/print/article/2279398

"The Truth About Mary Shelley," Betwixt the Sheets podcast (2025, 1 hour 2 mins.): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/betwixt-the-sheets-the-history-of-sex-scandal-society/id1612090432?i=1000734446341