UK Gothic (Blu-ray) (BFI) [UK]
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Gothic (Blu-ray)
Director: Ken Russell
Directed by cult favourite Ken Russell (The Devils) and starring Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Julian Sands (A Room with a View), Natasha Richardson (The Comfort of Strangers) and Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies), Gothic delves into the erotic and terrifying night that ultimately birthed Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein.
When a wild storm rages over Lord Byron’s literary house party, he suggests to his guests that they concoct a ghost story. However, upon deciding to hold a séance they soon conjure up their deepest fears. Plunged into a surreal horror, they wonder if it’s merely the power of their own intense lust and vivid imaginations that is tormenting them, or if they have in fact raised the dead!
Extras: TBC
Director: Ken Russell
Directed by cult favourite Ken Russell (The Devils) and starring Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Julian Sands (A Room with a View), Natasha Richardson (The Comfort of Strangers) and Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies), Gothic delves into the erotic and terrifying night that ultimately birthed Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein.
When a wild storm rages over Lord Byron’s literary house party, he suggests to his guests that they concoct a ghost story. However, upon deciding to hold a séance they soon conjure up their deepest fears. Plunged into a surreal horror, they wonder if it’s merely the power of their own intense lust and vivid imaginations that is tormenting them, or if they have in fact raised the dead!
Extras: TBC
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Presented in High Definition
- Feature commentary by film historian Matthew Melia and Lisi Russell (2018)
- The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002, 83 mins): Ken Russell returns to gothic themes in this legendarily lurid late video work starring both the director and his wife, Lisi Russell
- A Haunted Evening (2023, 35 mins): Stephen Volk, the writer of Gothic, revisits his earliest feature script
- The Sound of Shelley with Julian Sands (2017, 18 mins): the actor reflects upon the making of Gothic
- Amelia and the Angel (1958, 27 mins): in this charming early Russell short, a young girl, cast as an angel in the school play, is distraught when her brother damages her treasured wings. Pocket money in hand, Amelia traverses London on the hunt for a new pair in time for the play
- The Guardian Lecture: Ken Russell in conversation with Derek Malcolm (1987, 88 mins, audio only): the director reflects upon his career, at the time of Gothic
- Original trailer
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet featuring new essays by Ellen Cheshire, Jon Dear, and Matthew Melia and full film credits
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