# Gothic (1987)

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**Runtime**: 88 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: Ken Russell
**Written by**: Stephen Volk, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley
**Starring**: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall, Alec Mango

> *Conjure up your deepest, darkest fear... now call that fear to life.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A chateau on Lake Geneva’s black December shores. Candles gutter low as Shelley recites a ghost story—until the walls themselves start whispering back.

Exhaling ether-sweet smoke, the party dares shadows to shape-shift, but the shapes start answering.

A Gothic summer storm collapses onto Ken Russell’s fever-dream apparatus—let the audience decide which ghosts arrived first.

**Mood tags**: dread, surreal

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