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
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***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...