July 6, 2014I'm usually a huge fan of Ken Russell's work (Lair of the White Worm, Altered States, The Devils), but Gothic didn't really do it for me. It had a great cast and a cool idea and a really creepy poster, but it played more like a semi-homoerotic period piece with occasional bits of genuine worth. Natasha Richardson plays Mary Shelley, supposedly on the night she came up with the idea for Frankenstein, and together with her husband, Julian Sands, and his sister, they visit Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and his biographer, Timothy Spall, for a chance to tell spooky stories and sexual fantasies until the two became so intertwined and real that everyone freaked out. I won't not recommend it, simply because the worst Ken Russell film is still better than most films made today, but it was a little on the weak side.
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