Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Gabriel Byrne
as Lord Byron
Julian Sands
as Percy Shelley
Natasha Richardson
as Mary Shelley
Myriam Cyr
as Claire Clairmont
Timothy Spall
as Dr. Polidori
Alec Mango
as Murray
Andreas Wisniewski
as Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher
as Rushton
Pascal King
as Justine
Tom Hickey
as Tour Guide
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 the...