Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
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The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gabriel Byrne
Lord Byron
Julian Sands
Percy Shelley
Natasha Richardson
Mary Shelley
Myriam Cyr
Claire Clairmont
- Timothy Spall — Dr. Polidori
- Alec Mango — Murray
- Andreas Wisniewski — Fletcher
- Dexter Fletcher — Rushton
- Pascal King — Justine
- Tom Hickey — Tour Guide
- Linda Coggin — Turkish Mechanical Woman
- Kristine Landon-Smith — Mechanical Woman
- Chris Chappell — Man in Armour
- Mark Pickard — Young William
- Kiran Shah — Fuseli Monster
- Directed
- Ken Russell
- Written
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Stephen Volk
Production
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 · 195 ratings
- Studio
- Virgin Vision
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